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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. With whom does Jeanne make friends?

2. Jeanne becomes the first person in her family to _________.

3. Who is Woody's wife?

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

5. What does Papa sketch?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

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

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

6. How does Papa change after the Loyalty Oath?

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

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

9. 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?

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

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?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Describe Jeanne's family. Which member of the family do you think does the most to hold everyone together? Why? Which family member presents the most challenges to the family? Why? To whom is Jeanne closest? Why do you think this is the case?

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