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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 Eva's teacher, Mr. Jones ask her about that only she could answer?
2. What theater troupe came to Vancouver to perform Macbeth?
3. What, according to Eva and her parents, was the "big fear?"
4. What was the Canadian version of McDonald's?
5. What did hearing English distorted feel like for Eva?
Short Essay Questions
1. How was Eva a "pretend teenager?"
2. Give an example of how the Wydra's became paralyzed by choices and how they made decisions?
3. Why did Eva believe that speech was a class signifier?
4. How did Eva see Mr. Rosenberg after the Wydra's had been in Canada for a bit? How did he change in Eva's eyes and why did she perceive him differently after a short time?
5. Shortly after the Wydra's arrived in Canada, Eva had a bad dream. What was it and why was it significant?
6. What did Eva mean when she claimed to have "no interior language?"
7. What role did humor play in learning a new language for the Wydra's and especially Eva? What was it like for Eva to tell a joke? What did not translate from Polish to English?
8. In Eva's attempt at secrecy, what role did Mrs. Steiner play? Why did Eva place her is this position? What characteristics did Mrs. Steiner have that made Eva behave differently towards her?
9. Why did Eva's father struggle so much once the family was living in Canada?
10. When did Eva realize that discussing communism with her classmates was a waste of time?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Name small ways of intimacy that made a difference in Canada. How does Eva feel about these things? What is her reaction to them? Support your discussion by using examples from the book.
Essay Topic 2
Compare the meaning of friendship in Poland and Canada through the eyes of the author? What about her friendships in New York? Does she finally get the kind of friends she wants? How does she describe them?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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