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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 Ken position at the hospital?

2. What does Mr. Sankana say the weather was like in Montana?

3. Where does Yuk visit Emi?

4. Who has been imprisoned in Montana now for nine months?

5. What does Yuki envision when she hears the name Topaz?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Yuki think of the camp at Topaz?

2. Summarize chapter sixteen.

3. Summarize chapter thirteen.

4. What did Mr. Sakane experience in Montana?

5. Summarize chapter ten.

6. How does life at the camp start to become better for the Sakane family?

7. Why does Ken decide to join the army in chapter sixteen?

8. Why does Ken fall into depression in chapter ten?

9. Why does Ken decide not to accept a place at university?

10. Describe Yuki's hospital visit in chapter twelve.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss elements of the narrative structure: Exposition, conflict, complication, climax, resolution and conclusion. Do all the elements make for a logical and linear story? How does the story's structure express the novel's themes?

Essay Topic 2

Compare Japanese and American culture.

1. What are the differences between the two cultures?

2. In what way have the two cultures influenced each other?

Essay Topic 3

Why do you think Uchida ends the novel like she does? How else do you think she could have ended the novel? What meaning would that new ending have given the novel?

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