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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. Who punches Papa?

2. Who crashes into the reservoir shack?

3. What does Woody have Ray and Kiyo do to improve the barracks?

4. What is Mama's career?

5. What hurts Mama's pride?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Papa do in the barracks? How does it affect the family?

2. What is Papa's family like in Japan? What is the family's history?

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

4. Why does anti-Asian sentiment increase on the West Coast?

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

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

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

8. What keeps the family going despite the circumstances that they are in at the camp?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the discrimination that Japanese Americans faced after the attack on Pearl Harbor. How did Japanese Americans react to the discrimination? What effect did the discrimination have on Japanese-Americans?

Essay Topic 2

How do Jeanne's experiences in Manzanar color her life afterward? What does she think about herself? How do the events affect her relationships with other people? Do you think you would feel the same as Jeanne does if you experienced these circumstances?

Essay Topic 3

What happened at the reservoir shack on the night of the December Riot? Who was present? Why do you think the people present felt the way that they did? Do you think you would feel similarly if you had been there that night? Why or why not?

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