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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. Where was Mama born?

2. What is Mama's career?

3. What surrounds the camp?

4. Who arrives at the camp to take care of the orphans?

5. Where is Wakatsuki Ko interviewed?

Short Essay Questions

1. Of what is Papa accused? What does this mean for the family?

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

3. How is Jeanne's world turned upside down after the bombing of Pearl Harbor?

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

5. What work do members of the family do in the camp? Are they required to work?

6. What leads to the separation of families at Manzanar?

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

8. What are Jeanne's experiences in school and in the neighborhood after the family is forced to move from Ocean Park?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What was the December Riot? What were people upset about? What happened during the riot? Do you think the people were right to feel the way that they did? How do you think you would feel in a similar circumstance? 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

Although they are interned, the individuals in the camps engag in small (and larger) acts of resistance against their imprisonment and the discrimination. What are some of these acts of resistance? What do the acts accomplish? Why do you think the internees use these acts of resistance?

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