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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 is Ichiro finally starting to learn about people as he gets a new job?
(a) There are people who are willing to help him overcome his past.
(b) There are people willing to teach him religion.
(c) There are people willing to help his father.
(d) There are people willing to teach him American customs.

2. Why does Mr. Carrick offer Ichiro a job?
(a) He is desperate for a new employee.
(b) He is familiar with the struggles of Japanese-Americans and is sympathetic to Ichiro's time in jail.
(c) He is apathetic to Japanese-Americans.
(d) He doesn't want to hire anymore Americans.

3. What man is balding with unsympathetic, dark eyes?
(a) Ralph.
(b) Ichiro's father.
(c) The priest.
(d) The college professor.

4. What commotion at the door at Club Oriental distracts Kenji as he is sitting down to relax?
(a) The bartenders were fighting.
(b) A Japanese boy and two blacks have been rudely asked to leave.
(c) There was a fire in the doorway.
(d) Japanese girls were being kicked out of the club.

5. What is the Christian Rehabilitation Center?
(a) It is a school.
(b) It refurbishes donated items to give to the poor.
(c) It is a religious rehabilitation center.
(d) It is a drug rehabilitation center.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Ichiro going to work with at the Christian Rehabilitation Center?

2. What presents does Kenji give to his father?

3. What was Ichiro's flashback about?

4. What happens when Tommy and Ichiro go to church together?

5. Where does Kenji's father live?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Ichiro's father drinking so heavily?

2. What does Kenji bring as a present for his father and why?

3. What does finding a job represent to Ichiro?

4. What does Ichiro's behavior to the Japanese waiter at the Burnside Cafe symbolize?

5. What does the violent ending provide Ichiro?

6. Why does Kenji tell Ichiro to go back to Seattle without him?

7. How does Freddie die?

8. Why does Ichiro's mother drown herself?

9. What is Ichiro's father so impressed with at Ichiro's mother's funeral?

10. Why is the violent ending to the book so significant?

(see the answer keys)

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