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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. In Chapter 3, what time did Yoshiko discover the FBI had visited her home?

2. How old was Umigaki when she came to the United States?

3. How many Japanese-Americans made their own way outside the excluded zones?

4. How did one of the Uchida’s dogs die?

5. How many years did Dwight manage a store in Portland?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did many Nisei students begin leaving the university?

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

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

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

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

6. What types of handwork did Iku create?

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

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

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

10. What illnesses did Yoshiko suffer from?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

For a brief time at Tanforan, the Japanese were self-governing and held elections. How did the Japanese establish political boundaries? What offices were up for election? How was voting held? Why were the votes invalidated? How long were the Japanese allowed to self-govern? Why was this privilege rescinded?

Essay Topic 3

The portrait Uchida painted of her childhood revealed the anti-Asian sentiment that was rampant in the United States and helps to explain why the internments occurred. What signs of anti-Asian sentiment did Uchida reveal in her book? What racist incidents did she experience even before the war? How did the anti-Asian sentiment erupt into the forced displacement of Japanese? Did the anti-Asian sentiment end after the war?

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