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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 does the experience of visiting the family show Woody?
(a) That his family in America is nothing like his family in Japan
(b) That Woody belongs in Japan
(c) That he is proud of his father
(d) That his father lied about his family

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

3. 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) Most of the available land is already used up
(d) Many houses are bombed

4. What does Mama announce to Papa and Jeanne?
(a) The United States has defeated Japan
(b) Eleanor has a baby boy
(c) The camp is closing
(d) Woody has been killed

5. Jeanne goes to the first campground when she is in what grade?
(a) Tenth
(b) First
(c) Eigth
(d) Fourth

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Jeanne's family react to the news that the camps are closing?

2. What grade does Jeanne enter in Los Angeles?

3. Where does Jeanne complete her senior year of high school?

4. Where does the family find housing?

5. To what city does Eleanor move?

Short Essay Questions

1. What small freedoms are the people in the camp allowed as time passes? How does Jeanne feel about this?

2. What does Woody realize about Papa after his visit to Papa's family?

3. Where does Jeanne find acceptance? Where does she not find acceptance? Who does she become friends with?

4. Who are the first people in Jeanne's family to leave the camp? Where do the members of her family go?

5. What do Jeanne and her father wait for at the firebreak? What does Mama tell them?

6. What happens to Jeanne during her senior year of high school? What adds to Jeanne's differentness in the circumstance?

7. What activities does Jeanne try? How does she feel about each?

8. How do Jeanne and her family feel as Woody leaves for the Army? How do others in the camp feel as the men leave?

9. What is Jeanne's recurring dream? Why does this dream not come true for Jeanne?

10. After the Loyalty Oath, what does the camp become like?

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