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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does Ichiro demand to leave the first house his family visits together?
(a) He doesn't believe Hiroshima and Nagasaki were destroyed by nuclear bombs.
(b) He is digusted that people still think Japan has not lost the war.
(c) He is tired.
(d) He is hungry.

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

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 were all from the same village in Japan.
(c) They work together.
(d) They all have kids who went to the same school.

5. Who invites Ichiro into Freddie's apartment?
(a) The married woman Freddie is having an affair with.
(b) Ito.
(c) Freddie.
(d) No one, Ichiro goes home.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who owns the isolated farmhouse?

2. What are "Relocation Camps"?

3. Describe the area where the illegal gambling halls are located:

4. What happened to Bob Kumasakas?

5. What does Taro want to do right after he is done with school?

(see the answer key)

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