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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 is the greatest difficulty that the family faces in L.A.?

2. Jeanne is chosen as ________ in high school.

3. Jeanne goes to the first campground when she is in what grade?

4. Jeanne's family moves closer to what in the camp?

5. At what lessons does Jeanne succeed?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Mama, Papa, and the others in the camp react to the possibility of leaving the camp? What makes staying in the camp impossible?

2. What three cases go to the Supreme Court? What are the decisions on them?

3. After the Loyalty Oath, what does the camp become like?

4. What does Woody realize about Papa after his visit to Papa's family?

5. What is the trip back to Los Angeles like for Jeanne's family? Why?

6. Who are the first people in Jeanne's family to leave the camp? Where do the members of her family go?

7. What do Jeanne and her father wait for at the firebreak? What does Mama tell them?

8. What does Papa want to do after they leave Manzanar? How does he think he will accomplish this?

9. What small freedoms are the people in the camp allowed as time passes? How does Jeanne feel about this?

10. What does Jeanne find when she visits Manzanar? How does this make her feel?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is Jeanne's father like? How did he come to the United States and what did he experience once he arrived? How to the events in the book change him?

Essay Topic 2

Jeanne faces many life-changing experiences in the book. What event do you think had the greatest effect on Jeanne? Why did it have the greatest effect? How did the event change Jeanne's life? Use specific examples from the book to back up your argument.

Essay Topic 3

How do Jeanne and her family feel about Manzanar? Why do you think they feel this way? How are their feelings contradictory? How do you think you would feel in the same situation?

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