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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. How many languages did Eva's mother speak?
2. Where was the photograph taken about a year after the Wydra's arrived in Canada?
3. What was Mr. Ostropov involved in politically back in Russia?
4. What did Penny's sister, Janet, try to do?
5. What could Eva NOT afford to do at Christmas when she was in college?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why did Eva choose English as the language she would write in when she received her new diary?
2. When Eva and her family arrived in Canada, how did Eva view the two parts of her life?
3. Once in Canada, how did Eva keep her privacy? What did she hold back? How was she careful in what she said about the difficulties that her family was facing?
4. Give an example of how the Wydra's became paralyzed by choices and how they made decisions?
5. When Eva dreamed of staying in Poland, how did she imagine her life would have been had she stayed? What was "normal" to Eva and why did she believe that life in Poland would have been "normal?"
6. How did Canada's work ethic affect Eva's father and his view of himself?
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. Shortly after the Wydra's arrived in Canada, Eva had a bad dream. What was it and why was it significant?
9. 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?
10. When Eva and her friends would see a foreign film in Poland, what questions would they ask about the characters in the film? How does this relate to Eva's life in Canada?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
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 3
What is the meaning of friendship throughout the story? For Eva, how does it change when she moves to Canada? How is friendship viewed by her parents? Compare her friendship with Basia and Penny? What are the differences? What are the similarities? Support your reasoning with examples from the book.
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