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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 is the greatest difficulty that the family faces in L.A.?

2. Jeanne's family moves closer to what in the camp?

3. What does Papa want to build?

4. Who is Jeanne close to in her younger years?

5. Where does Jeanne find that she is accepted?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. 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?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How do Japanese Americans feel about the discrimination they faced after the attack on Pearl Harbor? Use specific examples from the book to illustrate your argument. How do they feel about the internment camps? Do you think you would have felt the same or differently?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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?

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