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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With whom do Jeanne and her parents move in?
(a) Her cousin
(b) Daniel
(c) Woody
(d) Her mother's employers

2. What is Mama's career?
(a) Dietician
(b) Nurse
(c) Teacher
(d) Psychologist

3. What does the mob cry out before the MPs use tear gas?
(a) Bonzai!
(b) Anarchy!
(c) Freedom!
(d) Geronimo!

4. What does the family make a down payment on just before Pearl Harbor?
(a) A farm
(b) A house
(c) A car
(d) A boat

5. What do the soldiers fear?
(a) Getting sent to Mexico
(b) Having to go home without seeing battle
(c) The high winds
(d) The mobbing "Japs"

6. What do Jeanne and the other women go to do?
(a) Shop at the market
(b) Wash laundry
(c) Pick oranges in the orchard
(d) See off the fishing fleet

7. What does Papa demand?
(a) A bed for himself
(b) An apology
(c) Extra rice and cans of fruit
(d) Woody to leave the family's unit

8. What is the reservoir crew given as protection?
(a) Slingshots
(b) Rifles
(c) Ax handles
(d) Tear gas

9. What is contained in the oil cans that Papa has with him?
(a) Chum
(b) Cooking oil
(c) Trash
(d) Oil

10. Heavy doses of what leave Jeanne sick?
(a) Antacids
(b) Flu medications
(c) Typhoid immunizations
(d) Mercury

11. Why doesn't Papa return to Japan?
(a) He wants to move to China
(b) His law degree is the United States
(c) He is wanted in Japan for murder
(d) The size of his family

12. What is the first thing the family sees with Papa?
(a) A cane
(b) A wig
(c) A wheelchair
(d) Eyeglasses

13. When did Jeanne's father come to the United States?
(a) 1895
(b) 1936
(c) 1908
(d) 1940

14. How long is it between the time that Jeanne's father is arrested and the next time that they see him?
(a) Three days
(b) Four months
(c) Five years
(d) Almost a year

15. Woody says that Ryan and Kiyo have to complete their task or they'll have to eat sand with what for lunch?
(a) Relish
(b) Salad dressing
(c) Ketchup
(d) Mustard

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Jeanne living with her family before Pearl Harbor?

2. In what year do the events of the book begin?

3. What does Woody bring in to help clean?

4. Issei means what?

5. Who crashes into the reservoir shack?

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