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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 the title of chapter nine?

2. In what does Ken invest?

3. What city in California does Yuki live in?

4. What does Yuki's mother say is not available?

5. Where did Mr. Toda live before he was evacuated?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How do the government prepare for the evacuation?

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

4. Summarize chapter seven.

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

6. What bad news do the Sakanes hear at the end of chapter three?

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

8. How do the Sakane family prepare for the evacuation?

9. How does the Sakanes' non-Japanese neighbour help the family in chapter five?

10. What is a Nisei Japanese American?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why do you think Uchida ends the novel like she does? How else do you think she could have ended the novel? What meaning would that new ending have given the novel?

Essay Topic 2

Examine the books reception in three different countries including the country the book was written. How do their opinions about the books differ? Was the book more influential in one country than another? If so, why?

Essay Topic 3

Examine the author's writing style. How would you describe the author's prose style? What kind of vocabulary does he use? What meaning does the author's style give to the story?

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