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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many bedrooms does Ichiro's parent's house have?
(a) Four.
(b) Three.
(c) Two.
(d) One.

2. How many blocks does Ichiro's mother walk to get bread?
(a) 30.
(b) 13.
(c) 3.
(d) 26.

3. What is the Club Oriental?
(a) A lounge at the train station.
(b) A Chinese food restaurant.
(c) A legal gambling hall.
(d) A private club where members can drink and buy alcohol.

4. How many inches of Kenji's injured leg remains?
(a) 11 inches.
(b) 1 inch.
(c) 111 inches.
(d) He doesn't have anything left of one leg.

5. How long has Ichiro been away from home?
(a) Four months.
(b) Four years.
(c) Two years.
(d) 14 months.

6. Where is Ichiro's brother, Taro, going to school?
(a) College.
(b) Trade school.
(c) Grade school.
(d) High school.

7. What makes Ichiro realize he is a true American citizen?
(a) He has never been to Japan.
(b) He has attended school in the United States.
(c) He speaks fluent English.
(d) He was born in the United States.

8. Describe the character "Bull":
(a) A large, well-dressed Japanese man.
(b) A loud Chinese man.
(c) A small and frail Japanese man.
(d) A Caucasian business owner.

9. How many times have they amputated Kenji's leg?
(a) Once.
(b) They have not amputated his leg yet.
(c) Twice.
(d) Three times.

10. Soldiers are returning from what war?
(a) The Revolutionary War.
(b) World War II.
(c) The Civil War.
(d) World War I.

11. Who owns the isolated farmhouse?
(a) Kenji.
(b) Emi.
(c) Mike.
(d) No one, it's abandoned.

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

13. What does Ichiro think was worth fighting in the war for?
(a) The United States.
(b) Civil rights.
(c) His parents.
(d) His education.

14. Who does Ichiro visit on campus after taking a bus ride to the school?
(a) The school admissions counselor.
(b) Professor White.
(c) Professor Brown.
(d) The P.E. teacher.

15. Ichiro will enlist in the U.S. Army if what happens?
(a) He doesn't have to use a rifle in the army.
(b) He gets a free car from the U.S. government.
(c) He can fight for the Japanese army after one year.
(d) His mother and father are reunited in the same prison camp.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a conscientious objector?

2. What country does Ichiro believe has changed his life in the most negative way?

3. Why does Ichiro start to drink faster than Kenji while they are at the gambling parlor?

4. What medal was Kenji awarded?

5. How much money does Ichiro's father give him when he tells Ichiro to go visit Freddie?

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