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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Perhaps Kabuo's worst lingering memory of the war was
(a) Shooting a child
(b) The German atrocities
(c) His best friend's death
(d) Storming the beach

2. Art Moran does not want Ishmael to let on
(a) That Heine's death was being investigated
(b) That the accident happened in the water
(c) That there was anything unusual about Hatsue
(d) That Carl's head was injured

3. Nels opens up the possibility that the wound on Carl's head could have come from
(a) A drunken stagger
(b) A broken mast
(c) A fall before he went over
(d) Propulsion rather than a blow

4. Hatsue tells Ishmael they have both gotten good at
(a) Outsmarting their parents
(b) Cutting school
(c) Being devious
(d) Lying to themselves

5. Liesel Jurgensen thought Susan Marie would be happy Carl bought the farm because
(a) It was the Heine's old farm
(b) They have two strong children for picking
(c) She loves strawberries
(d) Fisherman are always gone at night

6. When Ishmael and Hatsue begin to make love, Hatsue realizes
(a) Only bad things will come of this
(b) She could get into further trouble
(c) She can't let him have his own way
(d) Nothing is right about it

7. Carl Heine suggests that his wife, Etta, has
(a) Some Christian compassion
(b) Some tea and fish
(c) A yard sale
(d) A talk with the Miaymotos

8. In the courtroom, the Japanese attendees sat
(a) At the back of the room
(b) Scattered about the room
(c) In the front rows behind the defendant
(d) In a tight group behind the jury box

9. During the time that Kabuo is in jail
(a) His daughter becomes Strawberry queen
(b) His four year old daughter starts school
(c) His wife meets daily with Sheriff Moran
(d) His baby son learns to walk

10. San Piedro's hills are green with
(a) Mint farming
(b) Agriculture
(c) Pine and fir forest
(d) Cedar trees

11. Hatsue ends her relationship with Ishmael by
(a) Writing a letter to him
(b) Letting her mother contact him
(c) Sending a message to him
(d) Asking Sumiko to tell him

12. Susan Marie Heine says that she knew
(a) Carl was suicidal
(b) Carl was careless about his boat
(c) Carl's death would happen some day
(d) Carl was intoxicated when he left

13. Many Japanese workers sent money to Japan to buy
(a) Sake
(b) Passage home
(c) Wives
(d) Gold

14. Etta does not want Carl to sell any acreage to Zenhichi Miyamoto because
(a) He is not trustworthy
(b) He lives carelessly
(c) He is Japanese and she is racist
(d) He might let the land fail

15. When Ishmael complains about the Japanese,
(a) He decides he also hates Hatsue's family
(b) Hatsue reminds him she is Japanese
(c) His mother tells him to calm himself
(d) His father includes his comments in the newspaper

Short Answer Questions

1. Enlisting in the army, for Kabuo, was a matter of

2. Ishmael Chambers returned from the war

3. Ole and Leisel Jurgensen had two visitors on the same day--September 7. They were

4. Whaley challenges Art Moran and asks him if he wants to play

5. The darkness in Carl Heine's personality, as well as in Horace Whaley's is a result of

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