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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the most disturbing and disgraceful situation for most men held at Manzanar?
(a) The charge of disloyalty
(b) The lack of freedom
(c) The oversized clothing
(d) The family disintegration

2. What happens when the gossip of the camp about Papa is shared with Papa?
(a) He escapes from the camp under the barbed wire
(b) He fights with the camp head
(c) He confronts the people gossiping about him
(d) He flies into a rage

3. What occurs exactly one year after Pearl Harbor?
(a) The United States enters the war
(b) Japan's surrender
(c) The December Riot
(d) Papa dies of a heart attack

4. What item does Jeanne's mother refuse to sell, deciding instead to break it?
(a) Her china
(b) Jeanne's baby carriage
(c) A bracelet
(d) A short wave radio

5. Why does Jeanne's Mom pack heavy coats for them?
(a) So they can hide items in the pockets
(b) So they will have something to sleep on
(c) She doesn't want the buyers to get them
(d) She knows it can get cold in the mountains

Short Answer Questions

1. What crowds the barracks?

2. What do the other people at the camp consider Papa to be?

3. For what career does Papa first begin to prepare?

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

5. What is the first thing the family sees with Papa?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the greatest humiliation in the camp? How is it handled?

2. What does Jeanne believe is behind her father's seclusion in the barracks?

3. What do the people of the camp think about this document that the government wants them to sign? Why?

4. What are the barracks like in the camp?

5. How does Papa leave Japan? Where does he go?

6. What is the family's first impression of Manzanar?

7. What keeps the family going despite the circumstances that they are in at the camp?

8. Who arrives at the reservoir shack? Who is fearful in the shack and who are they fearful of?

9. Why does anti-Asian sentiment increase on the West Coast?

10. How does the family feel about moving to Manzanar?

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