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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was commonly known about Dr. Orlovski that his wife overlooked?

2. Who was Eva and Marek's first music teacher?

3. Who's son was Marek?

4. What ship did Eva and her family sail on to Canada?

5. What book did Eva's father read that gave him the initial idea to emigrate to Canada?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Eva feel about national pride?

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

3. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the difference, according to the author, between American women and their mothers and Polish women and their mothers? What kind of relationships do they have? How do emotions play into this?

Essay Topic 2

What is the final layer of English that Eva must conquer? What is the final key to Eva's understanding of the English language? How does this affect her becoming a full American?

Essay Topic 3

In the end, what is emigration? What does it mean to be an immigrant? Would people born in America have the same expectations of the country? Why? Why not?

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