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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are "Relocation Camps"?
(a) Detention centers for people who were thought to possibly pose a threat to national security.
(b) A place where families spent summer vacations.
(c) A place to help people move from one house to another.
(d) A place to sign up for the U.S. Army.

2. Why did Ichiro's father move to the United States?
(a) To give his sons the best schooling possible.
(b) To learn how to speak English.
(c) So they could buy a house with a white picket fence.
(d) So they could make money and then return to Japan to live comfortably.

3. Why did Kenji receive the car for free?
(a) Uncle Sam gave it to him for being a good hospital patient.
(b) His parents gave it to him.
(c) He won it in a raffle.
(d) It wasn't free, he bought it.

4. Why does Taro want to join the army?
(a) To make his parents angry.
(b) To learn how to shoot a rifle.
(c) To move away from home.
(d) To ease the shame felt by the family when Ichiro refused to serve.

5. What does Ichiro's mother think Japan will look like when they return?
(a) The same as it did 35 years earlier.
(b) Different since it has been bombed by the U.S.
(c) She doesn't talk about Japan.
(d) She doesn't want to move back.

Short Answer Questions

1. The book takes place in what U.S. city?

2. Which family lives in an apartment that is a mile-and-a-half away from Ichiro's family?

3. What kind of business do Ichiro's parents own?

4. Why was Ichiro dismissed from the professor's office?

5. How does Ichiro travel around town?

(see the answer key)

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