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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. On their trip to Vancouver, how much did four bowls of soup cost?
2. Just before leaving for college, how did Eva describe herself?
3. What did Eva's mother tell the girls to do as they stepped on the soil in Vancouver?
4. What theater troupe came to Vancouver to perform Macbeth?
5. On Eva's voyage of self-improvement, what two historical figures did she want to follow?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why did Eva choose English as the language she would write in when she received her new diary?
2. Give an example of how the Wydra's became paralyzed by choices and how they made decisions?
3. 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?"
4. Why did Eva believe that speech was a class signifier?
5. When did Eva realize that discussing communism with her classmates was a waste of time?
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. When Eva and her family arrived in Canada, how did Eva view the two parts of her life?
8. Shortly after the Wydra's arrived in Canada, Eva had a bad dream. What was it and why was it significant?
9. 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?
10. How did Canada's work ethic affect Eva's father and his view of himself?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Compare how Canada and/or America is viewed from the beginning of the book to the end of the book. Begin with the family's views of life across the ocean from Cracow, and continue the journey with the family as they emigrate to Canada. Give specific examples from the book to support your statements.
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
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?
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