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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 year did prayers and religion classes begin in Polish schools?
(a) 1942.
(b) 1935.
(c) 1957.
(d) 1967.

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

3. Which close relative of Eva's mother died during the war in the gas chambers?
(a) Her sister.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her father.
(d) Her brother.

4. How did Eva's mother and father prefer her to dress when in Poland?
(a) In colorful clothes.
(b) In clothes that are too large.
(c) In fancy dresses.
(d) In "sports outfits" meaning shorts or long pants.

5. How did Krysia describe her friendship to Eva in a poem?
(a) Like a mountain.
(b) Like a weeping willow.
(c) Like a coy pond.
(d) Like a cold running river.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who's son was Marek?

3. Where did Eva's father hide his foreign currency?

4. Where in New York did Eva meet somebody who knew her parents before the war?

5. How old was Eva when her family sailed for Canada?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

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

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

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. 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?

8. How did the author describe illness in Poland and illness in Canada? What were the differences between how children were treated when they had a cold or the flu in the two countries?

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

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

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