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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. What kind of uniform did Eva wear to the Cracow Music School?

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

4. Who, at home, infused Eva and her sister with Christian teachings?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Eva feel about national pride?

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What was a sanatorium and why did Eva's mother have to go to a sanatorium for a while?

9. 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?

10. 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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Eva use detachment to help her survive in Canada, in college and even beyond? What is she detaching from? What does this leave her to connect to?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Why is English the language of Eva's adulthood? Why does she stop translating in her head? What happens that makes it possible for Eva to think and dream in English? Why is this an important step in her development?

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