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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 the letter to Ichiro's mother talk about?
(a) How great life in Japan is now that the war is over.
(b) How bleak life in Japan is now that the war is over.
(c) How they miss Ichiro's family and want them to move back to Japan.
(d) How happy they are because Japan really won the war.

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

3. Why did Ichiro refuse to join the military?
(a) He thought he was too young to join.
(b) He didn't want to leave his friends.
(c) He was afraid and his mother didn't want him to go.
(d) He didn't know how to use a rifle.

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

5. Who does Ichiro call a fool for wanting to enlist in the U.S. Army?
(a) Ralph.
(b) Taro.
(c) Kenji.
(d) Mike.

Short Answer Questions

1. What medal was Kenji awarded?

2. Why do Freddie and Ichiro feel guilty?

3. What does Ichiro believe his parents represent?

4. What are "Relocation Camps"?

5. How does Ichiro travel around town?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Ichiro's brother, Taro, so anxious about enlisting in the U.S. military?

2. How is Freddie spending his time and why?

3. Who sends the letter to Ichiro's mother and what does it say?

4. What makes Kenji and Ichiro such close friends?

5. Who is Emi and why is she so important to Ichiro?

6. Who attacks Ichiro outside of Club Oriental?

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

8. Why does Ichiro refuse to have a drink with Ito as he walks to his parents' house for the first time in the beginning of the novel?

9. How long have Ichiro's parents been in the United States and do they plan on returning to Japan?

10. How does Ichiro's father get him to leave the house after Ichiro fought with his mother?

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