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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was an announcement made that Nisei men could join the armed forces?
(a) January 28, 1943.
(b) January 15, 1943.
(c) December 29, 1942.
(d) February 3, 1943.

2. How many daytime visits were the internees allowed to other train cars on the trip to Utah?
(a) 1.
(b) 4.
(c) 2.
(d) 3.

3. Who helped get toys and play things for the Tanforan nursery schools?
(a) Professors at Berkeley.
(b) YMCA.
(c) Professor from Mills College.
(d) Churches.

4. How large was the housing the Uchidas were given at Tanforan?
(a) 5x10.
(b) 10x25.
(c) 10x20.
(d) 20x20.

5. The first morning on the train, what time did the Uchidas eat breakfast?
(a) 7 a.m.
(b) 9 a.m.
(c) 6 a.m.
(d) 8 a.m.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much was the pay to be a teacher at the Tanforan elementary school?

2. How many books did the Tanforan library contain at first?

3. How many students showed up the first day for the nursery school at Tanforan?

4. What place did Yoshiko win for one of her paintings at Tanforan?

5. How many internees rode the train to Utah?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Dillon S. Myer say that being cut off from the mainstream of American life affected people?

2. How did Yoshiko receive her college diploma?

3. What trips outside Topaz were Dwight and his daughters allowed to make?

4. What was the first dust storm like that Yoshiko experienced?

5. How did Keiko and Yoshiko try to make their parents’ twenty-sixth anniversary special?

6. How did everyone dress for Thanksgiving dinner at Topaz?

7. Where was Yoshiko released to go in May, 1943?

8. How did friends help the Uchidas settle into their horse stall?

9. How did a woman solve the problem of no bathtubs at Tanforan?

10. Why did Yoshiko and her mother make signs for the washrooms at Tanforan?

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