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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 believe was the most important thing about speech?
2. When the Wydra's arrived in Canada, how far away were they from Vancouver in Eva's mind?
3. What nationality was Eva's piano teacher in Canada?
4. How many languages did Eva's mother speak?
5. What novel did John Fowles write that influenced Eva?
Short Essay Questions
1. Give an example of how the Wydra's became paralyzed by choices and how they made decisions?
2. Why did Eva choose English as the language she would write in when she received her new diary?
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. Why did Eva believe that speech was a class signifier?
5. What did Eva mean when she claimed to have "no interior language?"
6. 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?
7. 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?
8. How did the concept of "internal goods" give Eva comfort and allow her to feel more comfortable with herself?
9. How did Mr. Ostropov play the role of the "mad Russian?"
10. How were Eva's views of communism different from her classmates?
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
What is the final layer of English that Eva must conquer? What is the final key to Eva's understanding of the English language? How does this affect her becoming a full American?
Essay Topic 3
What is the difference, according to the author, between American women and their mothers and Polish women and their mothers? What kind of relationships do they have? How do emotions play into this?
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