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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the 442nd Combat Regiment?
(a) A front line unit in Japan
(b) A specialized naval unit
(c) An all Japanese unit
(d) An all California unit

2. Who is Jeanne's oldest sister?
(a) Mary
(b) Grace
(c) Kim
(d) Eleanor

3. What does Woody bring as a gift to his father's family?
(a) Sugar
(b) A radio
(c) Blankets
(d) Flowers

4. Jeanne's family moves closer to what in the camp?
(a) The reservoir shack
(b) The hospital
(c) The main gate
(d) The mess hall

5. Who is Jeanne close to in her younger years?
(a) Kiyo
(b) Papa
(c) Eleanor
(d) Ryan

6. What does Jeanne explore that her father is against?
(a) Ballet
(b) Odori
(c) Catholicism
(d) Modeling

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

8. How does Jeanne perceive Manzanar?
(a) A great part of her history
(b) A reason to be filled with shame
(c) Something to talk to others about
(d) A rally cry to change the laws

9. To what area does most of the family move?
(a) The East Coast
(b) The South
(c) California
(d) Canada

10. What is Jeanne's return to school and outside life like?
(a) Good
(b) Easy
(c) Difficult
(d) Surprising

11. What reaction does Jeanne and her family get from others?
(a) Outrage
(b) Hatred
(c) Indifference
(d) Gratitude

12. Jeanne and her father are in the firebreak waiting for what?
(a) Woody to return to the camp from prison
(b) The opening of the main gate
(c) The birth of Eleanor's child
(d) The end of Mama's surgery

13. Jeanne feels sorry for the teacher of which lessons?
(a) Baton twirling
(b) Odori
(c) Catholicism
(d) Ballet

14. Who is Woody's wife?
(a) Kim
(b) Eleanor
(c) Chizu
(d) Lane

15. Why can't Jeanne participate in the odori lessons?
(a) She is too tall
(b) She doesn't speak Japanese
(c) She thinks it is too Japanese
(d) Her father doesn't want her too

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Jeanne named during her senior year?

2. In 1942, the Supreme Court upholds the evacuation of Japanese-Americans due to what reason?

3. What would Jeanne be horrified about if anyone asked her out on a date?

4. What does Jeanne fear as the camps close?

5. Where does Woody go?

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