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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ichiro have to show for going to prison?
(a) Lots of friends.
(b) A college degree.
(c) Nothing.
(d) A job.

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

3. What are "Relocation Camps"?
(a) A place to help people move from one house to another.
(b) Detention centers for people who were thought to possibly pose a threat to national security.
(c) A place to sign up for the U.S. Army.
(d) A place where families spent summer vacations.

4. Who saves Ichiro from being attacked with a knife?
(a) No one, Ichiro is cut.
(b) Kenji.
(c) Taro.
(d) Emi.

5. What has Freddie accomplished in the five weeks since his return to the area?
(a) He has made new friends.
(b) Nothing.
(c) He has found a job.
(d) He has enrolled in school.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Japanese people on the West Coast were separated into various groups, depending on their allegiance to Japan because of what event?

3. Why do Freddie and Ichiro feel guilty?

4. Ichiro's family can best be described as:

5. Why does Kenji want to go to Portland?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Bull first ignore, and then make fun of Ichiro?

2. What is one of the biggest reasons why Ichiro thinks he should have fought for the U.S. military?

3. What makes Kenji and Ichiro such close friends?

4. Why does Ichiro say his life has been ruined?

5. What did Ichiro's parents want to do before moving back to Japan?

6. Why do characters like Ichiro and Freddie feel guilt?

7. What is a "no-no" boy?

8. Explain why "good" Japanese-Americans were allowed to fight in the U.S. military against Japan?

9. Who attacks Ichiro outside of Club Oriental?

10. Why was the bombing at Pearl Harbor such a dramatic event in U.S. military history?

(see the answer keys)

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