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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. Who took over the household financial affairs when Dwight was interned?

2. In his letters from the internment camp, who did Dwight ask be sent a monthly check?

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

4. Where did Yoshiko go after she learned about Pearl Harbor?

5. What type of wood was used for the boxes that were used to store Iku’s doll collection?

Short Essay Questions

1. What were some of the things that Dwight wrote from the camp in Montana and asked his family to do?

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

3. What did the house and yard look like where the Uchida girls grew up?

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

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

6. What did Grandmother Uchida do that showed she was a devout Christian?

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

8. What was the dominant language in the Uchida home?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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