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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. What time did Sunday School begin?

2. What type of grades did Yoshiko get in elementary school?

3. Where were the Japanese-Americans of Berkeley to report for evacuation?

4. What did a woman come to the house and ask for before the Uchidas were evacuated?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What constitutional amendments were ignored during the evacuation?

2. What did Iku carry in her purse?

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

4. What ritual did Yoshiko and her mother complete every morning before school?

5. What were the Uchidas doing when they learned about the attack on Pearl Harbor?

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

7. What did the children do while they waited for the adult church service to end?

8. How did the neighbors treat the Uchida family as the evacuation drew near?

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

10. What would Iku do with her girls for a special outing?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In Chapter 3, Yoshiko told about mixed reactions to the bombing at Pearl Harbor. How did most of the Japanese that Yoshiko knew, including her family, feel when they heard the news? Why weren’t they concerned? How did the white people feel when they heard the news? Why was there such a varied reaction to the news?

Essay Topic 2

Tanforan and Topaz became communities for the Japanese-Americans. How long did it take for the internees to start establishing institutions and community activities in the camps? What types of institutions and community activities were established? How did the Japanese-Americans band together? What was it they did they really created a sense of community?

Essay Topic 3

In Chapter 7, Yoshiko noticed discrimination when she visited the living quarters of a white teacher who was stationed at Topaz. What discrimination did Yoshiko find at Tanforan? What discrimination was at Topaz? How did Yoshiko especially feel that she had been the victim of discrimination when she saw the living quarters for a white teacher at Topaz? Was the entire internee experience discrimination?

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