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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 5, how far did Yoshiko and Keiko have to walk for a reliable source of hot water?

2. How many books did the Tanforan library eventually contain?

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

4. When did the FBI conduct a camp-wide search for contraband?

5. When was an announcement made that Nisei men could join the armed forces?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the tight living quarters at Topaz affect families?

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

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

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

5. Did the food ever improve at Tanforan?

6. How did Yoshiko receive her college diploma?

7. How did Yoshiko describe her neighbors at Tanforan?

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

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

10. How did Dillon S. Myer say that being cut off from the mainstream of American life affected people?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Yoshiko often felt like a second-class citizen. Why did Yoshiko feel like a second-class citizen? Why did she and her friends keep to themselves and have their own clubs and activities separate from the hites? What the prevailing sentiment toward the Japanese in America before World War II? Did Yoshiko and her friends question the way they were treated or did they feel it was normal? Why?

Essay Topic 3

Yoshiko believed that the experiences she and her family endured because of the evacuations actually made them stronger individuals. What qualities helped the Uchidas to survive? How did Dwight and Iku maintain the values that had sustained them all their lives? How did their faith help them survive? Did Yoshiko believe that she and her sister would have survived without their parents? How did their parents’ example help the girls be strong? Why did Yoshiko believe the experiences made the family stronger?

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