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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 ends all hope for staying at Manzanar?
(a) Fire in the camps
(b) The water main breaks
(c) The assignation of the General in charge of the camps
(d) Bombing of Hiroshima

2. What does Jeanne fear as the camps close?
(a) Having to stay at the camp
(b) Living on the East Coast
(c) Leaving her friends
(d) The future

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

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

5. Jeanne is chosen as ________ in high school.
(a) Valedictorian
(b) Lead baton twirler
(c) Homecoming queen
(d) Prom queen

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Jeanne reminded of when Woody leaves?

2. What hobby does Papa begin to do?

3. Where does Woody go?

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

5. Why is there a housing shortage on the West Coast?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the trip back to Los Angeles like for Jeanne's family? Why?

2. What does Papa want to do after they leave Manzanar? How does he think he will accomplish this?

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

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

5. How does Jeanne's relationship with her father change? Who does she turn to?

6. How does Jeanne feel about leaving the camp? What does she fear?

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

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

9. How does Papa change after the Loyalty Oath?

10. What three cases go to the Supreme Court? What are the decisions on them?

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