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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. Other than a pianist, what did Eva declare that she would like to be when she grew up?
2. 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?
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. Who, at home, infused Eva and her sister with Christian teachings?
5. What did Eva's father use as a means of transportation in Poland?
Short Essay Questions
1. For Eva's parents, what extra meaning did her birth have?
2. 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?
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 was a sanatorium and why did Eva's mother have to go to a sanatorium for a while?
5. What changed in the friendship with Basia after she returned from the camp for young communists?
6. How did Eva gather memories before the family emigrated to Canada?
7. What did Eva feel that she was being exiled from as she left Poland?
8. What emotion did Eva have when she heard the Polish National Anthem as her ship left for Canada?
9. How did Pani Ruta live during the war and why was her family untouched by what was happening to the Jews?
10. How was life on the ship to Canada like a family?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Throughout the story, explain the meaning of "being Jewish" to the author. Give examples of how she explains her "Jewishness" at different times in her life and how her views of her ethnic background changes with each major geographical move in her life.
Essay Topic 2
How does Eva's mother lose parental control when the emigrate to Canada? Why is her mother unsure of how to parent in her new country? How would it be different had the family stayed in Poland?
Essay Topic 3
From Eva's viewpoint, how do Americans feel about American identity? What do Americans feel they are missing? Does Eva feel she is missing the same thing once she becomes "Americanized?"
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