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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 were the Japanese allowed to take per person when they were sent to internment camps?

2. In Chapter 33, what plant is in Henry's living room that he has nurtured since Mary was born?

3. What do Henry and Keiko serve for lunch at the beginning of Chapter 24?

4. Where does Keiko take Henry after school in Chapter 24?

5. What sound is made when the door of the Japanese teahouse where Henry meets Marty and Samantha in Chapter 23?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is waiting for Henry when he returns from Idaho in Chapter 43?

2. Where did Henry's father get his education?

3. How are leftovers dealt with in the lunchroom where Keiko and Henry work at their school?

4. How many times has Henry heard Oscar Holden play?

5. What tradition does Henry cherish at the beginning of Chapter 23?

6. What happens when Chaz threatens Henry at lunch in Chapter 30?

7. What does Henry's father tell Henry when he is dying?

8. How does Mrs. Beatty help Henry smuggle in the gifts for Keiko?

9. What is the dessert that Samantha makes for Henry in Chapter 33, and why is it so special?

10. How does Chaz look when Henry saw him in Chapter 45?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

A work assignment in the school cafeteria leads to a relationship between Henry and Keiko. What commonalities help a friendship grow between the two? Why is their relationship able to survive through separation, marriages, and time?

Essay Topic 2

Father-son relationships is a theme in the novel. How is the relationship that Henry has with his father different from the relationship that his son has with him? How does culture and what is going on in the world affect those relationships?

Essay Topic 3

Mrs. Beatty supervises the lunchroom at Henry's elementary school. What type of woman does Mrs. Beatty seems to be? How do her actions reveal who she really is and what she thinks of Henry and Keiko?

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