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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 does the man at the cannery shout?

2. What do the other people at the camp consider Papa to be?

3. Who is in charge of the reservoir crew?

4. Issei means what?

5. Who does Jeanne think the internees look like in the surplus clothing?

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. Who arrives at the reservoir shack? Who is fearful in the shack and who are they fearful of?

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

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

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

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

8. Does Papa want his sons to join in the war? Why or why not?

9. How does the camp separate Jeanne's family from each other?

10. What is Papa's personality and character like?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Jeanne faces many life-changing experiences in the book. What event do you think had the greatest effect on Jeanne? Why did it have the greatest effect? How did the event change Jeanne's life? Use specific examples from the book to back up your argument.

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