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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many guests did the Uchidas have over for Sunday dinner on the day Pearl Harbor was attacked?

2. What did Dwight always read on the ferry on the way to work?

3. In Chapter 3, what did the men in the internment camp take as a positive sign?

4. What flowers grew to be seventeen inches in diameter?

5. What was the name of the church the Uchidas attended?

Short Essay Questions

1. What invalidated the government’s claim that the evacuation of the Japanese from the west coast from a military necessity?

2. How did Yoshiko and her fellow students feel about the news that Pearl Harbor had been bombed?

3. Why did the FBI break into the Uchidas’ home?

4. After Yoshiko and her sister and mother visited Dwight at the detention center, why did they fear they would never see him again?

5. What happened one evening when Yoshiko and friends were having a snack at a Berkeley restaurant?

6. What did Grandmother Uchida do to help the pain she had in her back and shoulders?

7. How was the Uchida’s church founded?

8. How did Dwight’s family struggle when he was growing up?

9. What did the Secretary of the Navy say about the attack at Pearl Harbor?

10. How did the Uchida women learn where Dwight had been taken?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In Tanforan and Topaz, there were climate adjustments that the Uchidas and others had to make. How were the climates different in Berkeley, Tanforan, and Topaz? What physical ailments were caused by the climates in Tanforan and Topaz? Was it more difficult to adjust to one climate than another?

Essay Topic 2

The Issei were first-generation immigrants and the Nisei were second-generation immigrants. What struggles did the Issei have in their new country? What struggles did the Nisei have in the United States? What conflicts were there between the Issei and Nisei? Why were opportunities limited for both first and second-generation immigrants?

Essay Topic 3

Camp life put a strain on relationships and character. Why were some families gradually torn apart by camp life? How was the authority of the family degraded? What other relationships were affected? What was the general character of the Japanese in everyday life outside the internment camps? Why did people begin to do things like participate in criminal behavior inside the camps—something they probably would never have done outside? Why did camp life seem to erode moral behavior and character?

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