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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 many acres did Tanforan encompass?

2. How many Japanese were housed at Tanforan?

3. How many camps for internees were scattered throughout the United States?

4. By the beginning of Chapter 8, when was the only time hot water was available?

5. What time did the train leave for Utah in Chapter 7?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Keiko and Yoshiko try to make their parents’ twenty-sixth anniversary special?

2. How were the barracks organized and furnished at Topaz?

3. What was the first dust storm like that Yoshiko experienced?

4. How did friends help the Uchidas settle into their horse stall?

5. How did Dwight celebrate his twenty-fifth wedding anniversary?

6. What astonished Yoshiko when they reached the Salt Lake City station?

7. What trips outside Topaz were Dwight and his daughters allowed to make?

8. What were some of the health issues suffered by the Uchidas at Tanforan?

9. How did a woman solve the problem of no bathtubs at Tanforan?

10. How was the first meal that the Uchidas ate at Tanforan?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Yoshiko felt that the United States blatantly ignored the Constitution when they rounded up the Japanese and sent them to camps. Which Amendments to the Constitution should have given the Japanese protection? Who were some of those responsible for spreading rumors about alleged Japanese involvement in the bombing of Pearl Harbor? What there any proof that the Japanese were involved in the bombing? Was there any proof that they were not involved?

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

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?

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