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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. At what lessons does Jeanne succeed?

2. What does Jeanne fear as the camps close?

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

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

5. What is Jeanne named during her senior year?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What small freedoms are the people in the camp allowed as time passes? How does Jeanne feel about this?

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

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

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

6. What three cases go to the Supreme Court? What are the decisions on them?

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

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

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

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 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 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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