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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 mother mean when she said that Eva was becoming "English?"
2. Where did the Wydras live inside the house in which they stayed when they arrived in Vancouver?
3. What did Eva confide to Mrs. Steiner?
4. After traveling to America, what did Eva declare was the capitol of the United States?
5. Vancouver's Board of Commerce claimed that Vancouver was the most beautiful city in the world after what city?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did Mr. Ostropov play the role of the "mad Russian?"
2. When Eva and her family arrived in Canada, how did Eva view the two parts of her life?
3. 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?
4. How did the concept of "internal goods" give Eva comfort and allow her to feel more comfortable with herself?
5. Shortly after the Wydra's arrived in Canada, Eva had a bad dream. What was it and why was it significant?
6. 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?
7. 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?
8. Give an example of how the Wydra's became paralyzed by choices and how they made decisions?
9. How was Eva a "pretend teenager?"
10. What did Eva mean when she claimed to have "no interior language?"
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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?
Essay Topic 2
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 3
How does the author describe words as signals? What kind of signals do words give the author? How does she read the signals? Use 2-3 examples of signals as discussed in the book.
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