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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. How does Jeanne's family react to the news that the camps are closing?
(a) They have mixed feelings about it
(b) They don't want to leave the camp
(c) They want the family to stay together
(d) They are excited to leave

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

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

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

5. What closes permanently in July of 1945?
(a) The draft for Japanese American soldiers
(b) The schools at Manzanar
(c) The Manzanar camp
(d) The mess hall at Manzanar

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Woody go?

2. Jeanne is chosen as ________ in high school.

3. Jeanne becomes the first person in her family to _________.

4. What does Jeanne fear as the camps close?

5. Who is Jeanne's oldest sister?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Papa change after the Loyalty Oath?

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

3. As she ages, how does Jeanne feel about Manzanar? How does she deal with her time there?

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

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

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

7. What does Jeanne fear will be the family's reception in Los Angeles? What it is actually like? How to people react to Jeanne and her family?

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

9. How do Mama, Papa, and the others in the camp react to the possibility of leaving the camp? What makes staying in the camp impossible?

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

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