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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 flowers grew to be seventeen inches in diameter?

2. What did the Uchida women send Dwight when he was sent out of state?

3. How far did Yoshiko get when she learned to read Japanese?

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

5. Who wrote a report in 1941 stating the Japanese were extraordinarily loyal to the United States?

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. How was the Uchida’s church founded?

3. How was Dolls Festival Day celebrated at the Uchida home?

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

5. What illnesses did Yoshiko suffer from?

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

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

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

9. What constitutional amendments were ignored during the evacuation?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In Chapter 4, accusations were manufactured against the Japanese Americans. What accusations were made? Who manufactured these accusations? Was there evidence that linked the Japanese Americans to the bombing of Pearl Harbor? Was there evidence that the Japanese Americans weren’t involved in the bombing? Did truth have anything to do with the allegations against the Japanese Americans?

Essay Topic 2

In Chapter 3, the Uchida women struggled with the running of the household and the business affairs. Why was it so difficult for the women to handle the household and business affairs? Why did Dwight always handle those things before? Was it common for men at that time to handle all business matters? Were men’s and women’s roles more defined at that time? How did the women rise to the occasion? Who took the most responsibility for financial matters? How did Dwight try to assist the women as they were left to handle the household details? Did they eventually become comfortable with the situation? Why or why not?

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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