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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. According to the woman who Eva met in New York who knew her parents before the war, how did Eva's father save Eva's mother after she had a miscarriage?
(a) He carried her on his back to safety.
(b) He transported her on a motorcycle.
(c) He cared for her at home.
(d) He sent her to her mother's.

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

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

4. What street did Eva and her family live on in Poland?
(a) Krysia.
(b) Czajkowskis.
(c) Kazimierza Wielkiego.
(d) Urzednicza.

5. What did Eva play for her first public piano performance?
(a) Czerny.
(b) Mozart.
(c) Haydn.
(d) Bach.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who asked Eva to dance on board the ship coming to Canada?

2. What was a familiar arch in Cracow which functioned as a gateway to the old city?

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

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What, according to Eva, threw an "odd light" on Pani Orlovska?

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

5. How did Eva gather memories before the family emigrated to Canada?

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

9. 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?

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

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