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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 did Krysia's older brother study in school?

2. Where in New York did Eva meet somebody who knew her parents before the war?

3. What happened to Alinka when her mother went to a sanatorium?

4. Who asked Eva to dance on board the ship coming to Canada?

5. Who did Janek, the boy Eva met on the ship to Canada, meet as he leaves the ship?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. 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?

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

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

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

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

9. Why did Eva consider the landing of the Batory the end of the narrative of her childhood?

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

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

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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