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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What song does Papa sing?

2. What humiliates Jeanne's mother?

3. Of what is Jeanne's father accused?

4. What does Jeanne's father burn?

5. What crowds the barracks?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Mama's family feel about Papa? Why are they not happy about the relationship?

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

3. What happens as all the Japanese American families are forced to leave Terminal Island? How does Mama deal with this humiliating event?

4. What do the men find most disturbing and disgraceful while they are in the camp? Why?

5. What is the most important day in Jeanne's life? Why?

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

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

8. What does Papa's interview at Fort Lincoln reveal about him and his family relationships?

9. What does Papa do when he hears the gossip about him? How does Kiyo react to Papa?

10. What does the government want the men to sign? What does signing it mean?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What are the events that lead to the creation of Manzanar? Why do you think the government chose to create the internment camps? Do you agree or disagree with this decision? Why?

Essay Topic 2

Trace Jeanne's feelings about her Japanese heritage through the events of the book. Which events have an impact on her self-image? How do the events make her feel about her Japanese heritage?

Essay Topic 3

What is Jeanne's father like? How did he come to the United States and what did he experience once he arrived? How to the events in the book change him?

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