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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the nickname of the small community where the book takes place?
(a) Pike's Peak.
(b) Jap Town.
(c) Fish Town.
(d) Army Town.

2. What does Ichiro's mother think Japan will look like when they return?
(a) Different since it has been bombed by the U.S.
(b) She doesn't want to move back.
(c) She doesn't talk about Japan.
(d) The same as it did 35 years earlier.

3. What does Taro want to do right after he is done with school?
(a) Get a job.
(b) Enlist in the U.S. Army.
(c) Join the Boy Scouts.
(d) Take over the family business.

4. Ichiro and his family go to visit other families when he returns home. How do they know these families?
(a) They play on the same softball team.
(b) They all have kids who went to the same school.
(c) They were all from the same village in Japan.
(d) They work together.

5. What part of the United States were most Japanese people rounded up and placed into Relocation Camps?
(a) South.
(b) Mid-West.
(c) East Coast.
(d) West Coast.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Ichiro's father move to the United States?

2. Who is the first conscientious objector we meet in the book?

3. What is a conscientious objector?

4. What country was Ichiro born in?

5. What is Ichiro searching for when he returns home?

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