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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 did Pani Orlovska tell Eva she should wash her face with to have a good complexion?
(a) Laundry soap.
(b) Dove.
(c) Noxema.
(d) Alcohol.

2. When little Eva worried about her parents fighting, what did her father tell her about their marriage that soothed Eva's worries?
(a) "Our marriage is as strong as the Chinese Wall."
(b) "I'm the man of the house."
(c) "Your mother just isn't bright."
(d) "I never should have married your mother."

3. Who was Eva's sister named after?
(a) Her grandmother.
(b) Her mother's sister.
(c) A relative in Israel.
(d) A maid.

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

5. 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 sent her to her mother's.
(b) He cared for her at home.
(c) He transported her on a motorcycle.
(d) He carried her on his back to safety.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Eva's family attend synagogue in Poland?

2. What did Marek tell Eva's father before his family left Poland?

3. Where did Eva's family take vacations when she was young in Poland?

4. Who's son was Marek?

5. What street did Eva and her family live on in Poland?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

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

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

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

8. 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?

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

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

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