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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 ship did Eva and her family sail on to Canada?
(a) Oh Canada!
(b) The Titanic.
(c) The Batory.
(d) The Lusitania.

2. Where did Eva's father hide his foreign currency?
(a) In the stove.
(b) Under a piece of the parquet floor.
(c) In a pipe in the ceiling.
(d) In a wall closet.

3. Who asked Eva to dance on board the ship coming to Canada?
(a) The captain.
(b) Marek.
(c) Janek.
(d) Her father.

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

5. Who, at home, infused Eva and her sister with Christian teachings?
(a) Their mother.
(b) The maids.
(c) Pani Ruta.
(d) Their father.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to Alinka when her mother went to a sanatorium?

2. What did Krysia's mother call her because she recoiled from being hugged?

3. What year did prayers and religion classes begin in Polish schools?

4. What was the name of the drink made for Eva by her mother when she was sick?

5. When Eva's mother became ill and had to go to a sanatorium, where did Eva go to stay?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What was a sanatorium and why did Eva's mother have to go to a sanatorium for a while?

5. 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?

6. What was an apparatchik in Poland and who, according to Eva, was one? What did they do? What was their function in the political landscape?

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

8. What was Eva's education like in Poland? Do you think she was getting two different educations? How did the teachers help the students understand what was important?

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

10. What, according to the author, was middle class in the Poland of her childhood?

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