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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 would Jeanne be horrified about if anyone asked her out on a date?

2. How does Jeanne perceive Manzanar?

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

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

5. When does the Supreme Court vote that loyal citizens cannot be detained against their will by the government?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. How does Papa change after the Loyalty Oath?

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

Jeanne faces many life-changing experiences in the book. What event do you think had the greatest effect on Jeanne? Why did it have the greatest effect? How did the event change Jeanne's life? Use specific examples from the book to back up your argument.

Essay Topic 3

Describe the discrimination that Japanese Americans faced after the attack on Pearl Harbor. How did Japanese Americans react to the discrimination? What effect did the discrimination have on Japanese-Americans?

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