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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. How many of Papa's family died in the bombing of Hiroshima?

2. What grade does Jeanne enter in Los Angeles?

3. What is Jeanne's return to school and outside life like?

4. Who is Jeanne's oldest sister?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to Jeanne during her senior year of high school? What adds to Jeanne's differentness in the circumstance?

2. How does Jeanne feel about leaving the camp? What does she fear?

3. As she ages, how does Jeanne feel about Manzanar? How does she deal with her time there?

4. What does Papa want to do after they leave Manzanar? How does he think he will accomplish this?

5. How do Mama, Papa, and the others in the camp react to the possibility of leaving the camp? What makes staying in the camp impossible?

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

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

8. How do Papa's family react to Woody's visit? What do they show him?

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

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

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.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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?

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