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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 does the FBI agent tell people who ring the house?

2. What do the Sakanes' non Japanese friends express?

3. What does the Sakanes' apartment smell of?

4. Who has Emiko been brought up by?

5. What is the name of Yuki's dog?

Short Essay Questions

1. What news is the catalyst for destroying the Sakane family's life?

2. How does Mr. Sakane react when the police arrive to arrest him?

3. How do Yuki's friends react to her when she returns to school?

4. Describe the Sakanes' new living space.

5. How does Mrs. Sakane try to make the best of a bad situation in chapter six?

6. How do the Sakanes' friends react to Mr. Sakane's arrest?

7. What does Yuki state as her like and dislikes in the opening chapter?

8. What is a Nisei Japanese American?

9. Why can Japanese people not go to university on the West Coast?

10. How does Yuki show her love for America in chapter seven?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss elements of the narrative structure: Exposition, conflict, complication, climax, resolution and conclusion. Do all the elements make for a logical and linear story? How does the story's structure express the novel's themes?

Essay Topic 2

Choose one of the following and examine it what expresses about 1940s American society.

1. War.

2. Internment camps.

3. Mistrust of other cultures.

Essay Topic 3

Compare Yuki's character to the person she was at the beginning of the book to the person she is at the end.

1. What did Yuki hope to achieve at the beginning of the book?

2. What events changes Yuki's ideas about life?

3. How has Yuki's character changed by the end of the novel?

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