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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 the family find housing?

2. To what city does Eleanor move?

3. What does Jeanne explore that her father is against?

4. What is Jeanne named during her senior year?

5. At what lessons does Jeanne succeed?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. 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?

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

6. How does Papa change after the Loyalty Oath?

7. As she ages, how does Jeanne feel about Manzanar? How does she deal with her time there?

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. 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 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

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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