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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 6, how long would friends have to wait in line for a pass to visit the Uchidas?

2. In Chapter 6, how long was Keiko sick with a cold?

3. What was the food budget per day per person at Topaz?

4. When were classes for the children first held at Tanforan?

5. On what day were the Uchidas assigned to depart for Delta, Utah?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In Chapter 6, what would non-Japanese friends bring the Uchidas when they came to visit?

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

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

5. Where was Yoshiko released to go in May, 1943?

6. What break were the internees given after the train reached Nevada sagebrush country?

7. How was the Topaz camp arranged?

8. Who were some people who died at Topaz?

9. What were some of the first organizations established at Tanforan?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

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

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?

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