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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who asks Ichiro to go outside of the gambling hall during his first visit there with Kenji?
(a) Taro.
(b) Ichiro's father.
(c) Bull.
(d) Kenji.

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

4. How does Ichiro travel around town?
(a) He never leaves the house.
(b) He has a car.
(c) By walking and taking the bus.
(d) By train.

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

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

7. Most Japanese on the West Coast had three options: go to jail, enlist in the draft, or enter:
(a) An internship.
(b) College.
(c) Relocation Camps.
(d) Rehabilitation.

8. What do the negroes in the pool hall tell Ichiro to do?
(a) "Come play pool with us."
(b) "Go back to Tokyo, boy."
(c) "What's your name, boy?"
(d) "Sign up for the army."

9. Why does Kenji want Ichiro to go for a ride with him after the incident outside the gambling hall?
(a) They want to leave before Bull comes outside.
(b) Kenji feels like driving to the country.
(c) Kenji has a girl he wants Ichiro to meet.
(d) Kenji knows the attackers will be back to hurt Ichiro.

10. Japanese people on the West Coast were separated into various groups, depending on their allegiance to Japan because of what event?
(a) The bombing of Pearl Harbor.
(b) Not enough Japanese were enlisting in the U.S. Army.
(c) The bombing of the USS Enterprise.
(d) The Japanese were opening too many businesses.

11. What kind of business do Ichiro's parents own?
(a) A bakery.
(b) A pet store.
(c) A grocery store.
(d) A knitting store.

12. What nationality does Ichiro identify with most?
(a) Japanese, his parents were born in Japan.
(b) Chinese.
(c) None, he feels he has lost his identity.
(d) American, he was born in the U.S.

13. How can Ichiro relate to Kenji's pain?
(a) Kenji feels he has two years before his body is rotten; Ichiro feels he lost his own life two years ago in prison.
(b) They both have headaches.
(c) They have both considered suicide.
(d) They both suffer leg pain.

14. What does the letter that Ichiro's mom have say about a ship?
(a) That it will bring new weapons for the Japanese soldiers.
(b) That it is a cruise ship, offering free trips.
(c) That it will come to bring the Japanese back to Japan to celebrate victory.
(d) That it is coming to bomb the U.S.

15. Why did Kenji receive the car for free?
(a) His parents gave it to him.
(b) Uncle Sam gave it to him for being a good hospital patient.
(c) It wasn't free, he bought it.
(d) He won it in a raffle.

Short Answer Questions

1. Soldiers are returning from what war?

2. How long ago did Ichiro's father come to the United States?

3. Why is Ichiro mad at his mother when they argue for the first time?

4. What makes Ichiro realize he is a true American citizen?

5. Why doesn't Ichiro respect his parents?

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