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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What commotion at the door at Club Oriental distracts Kenji as he is sitting down to relax?
(a) There was a fire in the doorway.
(b) A Japanese boy and two blacks have been rudely asked to leave.
(c) The bartenders were fighting.
(d) Japanese girls were being kicked out of the club.

2. What is the Christian Rehabilitation Center?
(a) It is a religious rehabilitation center.
(b) It refurbishes donated items to give to the poor.
(c) It is a school.
(d) It is a drug rehabilitation center.

3. What happens when Ichiro pulls up to the grocery store in the Oldsmobile following his trip home from Portland?
(a) He gets into a fight with his brother.
(b) The grocery store is locked and he can't get in.
(c) He refuses to go in and drives away.
(d) He goes in and has dinner with his parents.

4. What happens when Ichiro shakes his father?
(a) Nothing, he doesn't wake up.
(b) He mumbles that he knows exactly what happened.
(c) He wakes up and calls the police.
(d) He wakes up, then passes out again.

5. What does Freddie want Ichiro to do with him at after the funeral?
(a) Go with him to see Emi.
(b) Go out with him for some fun.
(c) Go to the library to check out books.
(d) Go with him to enlist in the army.

6. What happens when Tommy and Ichiro go to church together?
(a) They learn about religion.
(b) They learned that Japanese are not welcome.
(c) They decide not to be religious.
(d) They get into a fist fight.

7. Who does Freddie kick during the fight in the alley before running to his car?
(a) Bull.
(b) Ichiro.
(c) A stranger.
(d) Ito.

8. What is Ichiro's attitude about minorities in America at the end of the novel?
(a) He feels there is hope.
(b) He feels there is no hope.
(c) He thinks he should move to Japan.
(d) He thinks he should have stayed in prison.

9. Who does Kenji blame for the problems he has had since going into the army?
(a) His father.
(b) The U.S. government.
(c) Himself.
(d) His siblings.

10. Where did Ichiro's mother fail most?
(a) Trying to make him enlist in the army.
(b) Trying to make him learn several languages.
(c) Trying to keep him isolated from Americans and their customs.
(d) Trying to make him take over the family business.

11. What old friend does Ichiro see again at his mother's funeral?
(a) Kenji.
(b) Freddie.
(c) Professor Brown.
(d) Ralph.

12. Why does it take Kenji so many hours to pick Ichiro up at the grocery store before they leave for Portland?
(a) He is driving around, consumed by his thoughts about race, people, and other situations.
(b) He is consumed by positive thoughts about race relations in the U.S.
(c) He isn't sure if he wants Ichiro to join him on the journey to Portland.
(d) He gets lost on the way to the grocery store.

13. Who does Ichiro give Kenji's car to?
(a) Emi.
(b) Kenji's father.
(c) Taro.
(d) Ralph.

14. When did everything change in his marriage, according to Ichiro's father?
(a) When they had children.
(b) When they made the trip from Japan to America.
(c) When they opened the grocery store.
(d) When she tried to stack the cans.

15. Why is Ichiro's father impressed at his wife's funeral?
(a) There are many butterflies flying around.
(b) There are many flowers.
(c) There are many people to offer condolences.
(d) There is a lot of food.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do we learn from Kenji about Emi and her feelings about Ralph?

2. When is Ichiro going to start his new job in Portland?

3. What will Ichiro do for the Christian Rehabilitation Center?

4. This is the best way to describe the book's ending:

5. What do the funeral and Ichiro's mother's life have in common?

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