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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Papa want to build?
(a) A boat
(b) A better bond with Jeanne
(c) A housing project
(d) A Japanese civil rights organization

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

3. Who is the first of the family to leave?
(a) Woody and his wife
(b) Mama, Papa and Jeanne
(c) Granny and Kiyo
(d) Eleanor, Shig and their baby son

4. Why did the family erect a gravestone with Papa's name on it?
(a) They hadn't heard from him and do not know if he iss still alive.
(b) They are told he died in a fishing accident.
(c) They do this for anyone who leaves the country.
(d) They disown him.

5. Where does Woody serve in the military?
(a) Hawaii
(b) Tokyo
(c) Manilla
(d) Germany

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

7. What hobby does Jeanne try that she comes to believe is a horrible abuse of the body?
(a) Aerobics
(b) Yoga
(c) Ballet
(d) Running

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

9. Papa would be angry if Jeanne dated ________.
(a) A Caucasian
(b) An older man
(c) A "No, No" Japanese
(d) An Asian

10. What helps alleviate the overcrowding in the camp?
(a) The influenza epidemic
(b) The addition of five more camps for the detainees
(c) The expansion of the camp by one mile
(d) The Loyalty Oath

11. What does Papa sketch?
(a) The mountains
(b) His children
(c) The orchard
(d) The barbed wire fence

12. At what lessons does Jeanne succeed?
(a) Ballet
(b) Cooking
(c) Knitting
(d) Baton twirling

13. What hobby does Papa begin to do?
(a) Carving furniture
(b) Weight lifting
(c) Curling
(d) Songwriting

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How long after she leaves does Jeanne return to Manzanar?

2. What date does the government set for final closure of the camp?

3. Jeanne feels sorry for the teacher of which lessons?

4. Who breaks the dam of Jeanne's memories about Manzanar?

5. Where does Papa lease land?

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