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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 long before Sunday School began would the Uchidas leave for church?

2. How many bedrooms did the house have where the Uchida girls grew up?

3. Approximately how many Japanese were ordered for removal from Military Area Number One?

4. Where was Yoshiko’s Sunday School class held?

5. How much notice were the Uchida women given to evacuate in Chapter 4?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What did Iku carry in her purse?

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

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

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

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

9. What types of handwork did Iku create?

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

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

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 3

Yoshiko believed that the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments were ignored when it was decided to remove the Japanese from the West coast. How was it decided to intern the Japanese? Were the Japanese given due process of law? How did the issue of race trump the protections afforded in the Fourteenth Amendment? Why was military expediency allowed to override the constitution? How did a small minority of self-seeking politicians and special interest groups manage to override the constitution?

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