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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. Which of the following inspects the camp before everyone leaves?

2. Who has been imprisoned in Montana now for nine months?

3. What does Yuki try to buy to eat in this chapter?

4. What does Mrs. Sakane insist Yuki does?

5. How does Yuki communicate to Emi?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Mr. Kurihara die in chapter fourteen?

2. Summarize chapter 11.

3. How does life at the camp start to become better for the Sakane family?

4. Why is Yuki upset in chapter ten?

5. Summarize chapter thirteen.

6. Describe Yuki's hospital visit in chapter twelve.

7. Summarize chapter twelve.

8. How does Yuki hear the government are moving the internees to Utah?

9. How does Ken's situation become better in chapter thirteen?

10. How does Mr. Kurihara pass his time at the camp?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Identify the main themes of the story. In what way are these themes relevant to the period? How does the author use character and setting to express these 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

How do the internees feel about the American government? How did the American try to fix the relationship between themselves and the American Japanese after the war?

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