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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17, It's All Starting Over.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many times do Mama and Papa run away together?
(a) Six
(b) Twice
(c) Four
(d) None

2. Why does Papa leave Japan?
(a) He needs to escape the law
(b) Mama is in California
(c) Japan is in a severe depression
(d) He fights with his father

3. Where was Mama born?
(a) Japan
(b) Canada
(c) Hawaii
(d) California

4. Why is there a housing shortage on the West Coast?
(a) Japanese American houses are burned after the evacuation
(b) Many houses are bombed
(c) People move there to help with the war effort
(d) Most of the available land is already used up

5. People can leave the camps and move inland if they do what?
(a) Give information on another Japanese person
(b) Find a job and a sponsor
(c) Sign a green card
(d) Sign up for the military

Short Answer Questions

1. What ends all hope for staying at Manzanar?

2. Issei means what?

3. What does the family make a down payment on just before Pearl Harbor?

4. When was Papa born?

5. At Fort Lincoln, what did Papa work as?

(see the answer key)

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