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

2. The mood of the book after the preface is:
(a) Scary.
(b) Carefree.
(c) Humorous.
(d) Somber.

3. What is a conscientious objector?
(a) Someone who likes philosophy.
(b) Someone who likes to protest.
(c) Someone who refuses to participate in war based on religious, moral, or ethical grounds.
(d) Someone who doesn't like to read.

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

5. What do the young boys surrounding Ichiro start to do to him outside of the gambling hall?
(a) Taunt him and start to take off his clothes.
(b) Ask him to join the army.
(c) Ask him to go for a ride.
(d) Taunt him and chase him into the street.

Short Answer Questions

1. What country was Ichiro born in?

2. What does Ichiro believe his parents represent?

3. What is Emi's advice to Ichiro?

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

5. What is the best way to describe Ichiro's mood in Chapter 2?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who attacks Ichiro outside of Club Oriental?

2. Why does Ichiro have to apologize to his father after Ichiro fought with his mother?

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

4. What was the American attitude toward Japanese after the bombing of Pearl Harbor?

5. What is a conscientious objector?

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

7. 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?

8. What makes Kenji and Ichiro such close friends?

9. Why is Ichiro searching for acceptance in the very country in which he was born?

10. Why does Ichiro call his mother crazy in Chapter 2?

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