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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 Mama announce to Papa and Jeanne?

2. How many members of the family go to Los Angeles?

3. What hobby does Jeanne try that she comes to believe is a horrible abuse of the body?

4. How many rooms does the family's new unit have?

5. What does Woody bring as a gift to his father's family?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Jeanne and her father wait for at the firebreak? What does Mama tell them?

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

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

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

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

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

7. 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?

8. How does Papa change after the Loyalty Oath?

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

10. What is Jeanne's recurring dream? Why does this dream not come true for Jeanne?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What are the events that lead to the creation of Manzanar? Why do you think the government chose to create the internment camps? Do you agree or disagree with this decision? Why?

Essay Topic 2

What was the purpose of the internment camps? Dido they fulfill their purpose? Why or why not? Do you think the camps were right? Why or why not?

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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