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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4 In a Stranger's Backyard.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is stamped on the husband's letters to his wife?
(a) Deferred Enemy Internment Mail.
(b) Detained Enemy Camp Mail.
(c) Defense Enlistment Postage Due.
(d) Detained Enemy Alien Mail.

2. What item of his father's does the boy have with him?
(a) A pair of shoes.
(b) A watch.
(c) A pipe.
(d) A pair of gloves.

3. Who had convinced the mother to rent the house to tenants while they were gone?
(a) A lawyer.
(b) A neighbor.
(c) A friend.
(d) A minister.

4. Soldiers return home from the war with stories of _______________________.
(a) their comrades.
(b) heroism.
(c) starvation.
(d) atrocities in Japanese prison camps.

5. How does the boy know that his mother is depressed?
(a) She won't eat anything.
(b) She yells at him all the time.
(c) She doesn't pay any attention to him.
(d) She won't get out of bed.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is one family in camp sent back to Japan?

2. In what year does the story begin?

3. What happens to the family in Chapter 4?

4. Who is the old woman who sometimes thinks she hears her mother calling her?

5. What happened to the money from the house rental?

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