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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. Who's son was Marek?

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

3. What color were the goldfish at the pond that Eva and her parents often visited in Poland?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Compare Krysia's adult life with Eva's. What were the differences? What were the similarities? How did you think they viewed each others lives?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. 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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the meaning of friendship throughout the story? For Eva, how does it change when she moves to Canada? How is friendship viewed by her parents? Compare her friendship with Basia and Penny? What are the differences? What are the similarities? Support your reasoning with examples from the book.

Essay Topic 2

According to Eva, when immigrants living in Canada say they love the country, what are they really saying? How does the idea of detachment play into this theory? Support your conclusions with quotes from the book.

Essay Topic 3

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?

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