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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 happened to Alinka when her mother went to a sanatorium?
(a) She went to a private establishment run by a governess and gets treated badly.
(b) She lives with a teacher from school.
(c) She lives with Pani Ruta.
(d) She stays home with a maid.

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

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

4. What Polish word was the best compliment that a school exercise could receive and means "dash, inspiration and flying?"
(a) Polot.
(b) Panash.
(c) Peuchet.
(d) Polish.

5. Where did Eva and her family go on an autumn afternoon in 1958?
(a) To the Bergs' house.
(b) To a car dealership.
(c) To their favorite park.
(d) To a demonstration.

Short Answer Questions

1. What city did Eva and her parents get off the ship at when they arrived in Canada?

2. What is unique about Orlovska's apartment that let Eva know that they had more money than her family?

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

4. What, according to Eva's mother, was a necessary part of a lady's equipment?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. 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?

5. 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?

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

7. What emotion did Eva have when she heard the Polish National Anthem as her ship left for Canada?

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

9. How did Eva feel about national pride?

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

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