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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 body of water did the ship sail down after it reached the coast of Canada?
2. Where did Eva's father hide his foreign currency?
3. Where did the ship that Eva and her family emigrate to Canada on sail from?
4. What, according to the author, was the language of money and secrets?
5. In her later life, who did Pani Orlovska write a book about?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. How did Pani Ruta live during the war and why was her family untouched by what was happening to the Jews?
3. How did Eva's mother view the idea of being lazy for women?
4. 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?
5. How was life on the ship to Canada like a family?
6. 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?
7. What was the difference between the books that Eva choose from the library and books she had to read in school in Poland?
8. 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?
9. How did Eva feel about national pride?
10. 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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Compare how Canada and/or America is viewed from the beginning of the book to the end of the book. Begin with the family's views of life across the ocean from Cracow, and continue the journey with the family as they emigrate to Canada. Give specific examples from the book to support your statements.
Essay Topic 2
How do Eva and Alinka reassure each other as adults? Why do they need this reassurance? What are they missing that gives them the need for this? Are they happy and well-adjusted? How do trips home affect Eva's self-esteem? Why does this happen?
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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