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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. How much younger was Eva's sister than her?
(a) 1 year.
(b) 4 years.
(c) 16 months.
(d) 8 years.

2. What kind of uniform did Eva wear to the Cracow Music School?
(a) Pants and a white blouse.
(b) A skirt and white top.
(c) Jeans and a blue top.
(d) An overdress made from navy blue fabric.

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

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

5. Where in New York did Eva meet somebody who knew her parents before the war?
(a) At a dinner party.
(b) In the Union Square cafeteria.
(c) In Times Square.
(d) A work.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What, according to the author, was the language of money and secrets?

3. How did Krysia describe her friendship to Eva in a poem?

4. Which close relative of Eva's mother died during the war in the gas chambers?

5. Who owns the houses in the locations where Eva's family vacations when she is young in Poland?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

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

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

6. 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?

7. 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?

8. Why did Eva's parents go to synagogue and practice religion?

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

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

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