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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. Why is there a housing shortage on the West Coast?

2. Where does the family find housing?

3. Why can't Jeanne participate in the odori lessons?

4. What does Mama announce to Papa and Jeanne?

5. Where does Jeanne complete her senior year of high school?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Woody realize about Papa after his visit to Papa's family?

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

3. What activities does Jeanne try? How does she feel about each?

4. Who are the first people in Jeanne's family to leave the camp? Where do the members of her family go?

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

6. Where does Jeanne find acceptance? Where does she not find acceptance? Who does she become friends with?

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

8. What is Jeanne's reaction to the outside world? What double impulse does she have?

9. 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?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What discrimination does Jeanne face in school after the family returns to Los Angeles? Where does she feel accepted? Where does she not feel accepted? What recurring dream does she have? Why do you think Jeanne never fulfills this dream?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

How did the camps affect family life for the internees? What aspects of the camp affect Jeanne's family? How does her family change from the outside world to internment in the camps? Are they able to put the family back the way it was when they are released from the camp?

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