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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 the experience of visiting the family show Woody?

2. Who tells Woody that he looks like his father?

3. How long after she leaves does Jeanne return to Manzanar?

4. What worries Papa after the bombing of Hiroshima?

5. What ends all hope for staying at Manzanar?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. 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?

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

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

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 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 3

What happened at the reservoir shack on the night of the December Riot? Who was present? Why do you think the people present felt the way that they did? Do you think you would feel similarly if you had been there that night? Why or why not?

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