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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. Where does Mama go to work?

2. What does Papa want to build?

3. What date does the government set for final closure of the camp?

4. Who is Woody's wife?

5. What does the experience of visiting the family show Woody?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. How do Jeanne and her family feel as Woody leaves for the Army? How do others in the camp feel as the men leave?

3. What does Jeanne find when she visits Manzanar? How does this make her feel?

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

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

6. 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?

7. How does Papa change after the Loyalty Oath?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the Loyalty Oath? How do the people in the camp react to it? Why does it cause so much controversy? How do you think you would have reacted to it?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Trace Jeanne's feelings about her Japanese heritage through the events of the book. Which events have an impact on her self-image? How do the events make her feel about her Japanese heritage?

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