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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was commonly known about Dr. Orlovski that his wife overlooked?
(a) He spends too much money.
(b) He has a permanent mistress.
(c) He is ugly.
(d) He does not smell good.

2. In her later life, who did Pani Orlovska write a book about?
(a) Gorbchev.
(b) Helen Keller.
(c) Princess Grace.
(d) President Reagan.

3. What is unique about Orlovska's apartment that let Eva know that they had more money than her family?
(a) They had a "little salon."
(b) They had a maid's room.
(c) They had a 4th room.
(d) They had a separate kitchen.

4. How old was Eva when her family sailed for Canada?
(a) 16 years old.
(b) 13 years old.
(c) 19 years old.
(d) 22 years old.

5. What was a familiar arch in Cracow which functioned as a gateway to the old city?
(a) Cracow Gate.
(b) Banieczki Gate.
(c) Entrance Gate.
(d) Florianska Gate.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of uniform did Eva wear to the Cracow Music School?

2. What group of brothers kept eluding the gestapo so successfully during the war that the Germans thought Eva's father was one of them?

3. What book did Eva's father read that gave him the initial idea to emigrate to Canada?

4. When little Eva worried about her parents fighting, what did her father tell her about their marriage that soothed Eva's worries?

5. Who did Janek, the boy Eva met on the ship to Canada, meet as he leaves the ship?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Eva consider the landing of the Batory the end of the narrative of her childhood?

2. How did Pani Ruta live during the war and why was her family untouched by what was happening to the Jews?

3. What was the difference between the books that Eva choose from the library and books she had to read in school in Poland?

4. How was life on the ship to Canada like a family?

5. What did Eva feel that she was being exiled from as she left Poland?

6. How did Eva's mother view the idea of being lazy for women?

7. What changed in the friendship with Basia after she returned from the camp for young communists?

8. For Eva's parents, what extra meaning did her birth have?

9. Why was it important for Eva's mother to have a maid? What role did this maid play in her idea of what a homemaker was?

10. Why did Eva's parents go to synagogue and practice religion?

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