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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 is Jeanne reminded of when Woody leaves?

2. What does Jeanne fear as the camps close?

3. Who is the first of the family to leave?

4. How many rooms does the family's new unit have?

5. Jeanne goes to the first campground when she is in what grade?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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