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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 ethnicity is Naomi Nakane?
(a) Chinese.
(b) Vietnamese.
(c) Korean.
(d) Japanese.

2. How many children do Obasan and Uncle have?
(a) Two.
(b) Three.
(c) One.
(d) Zero.

3. What does the Nakane family realize about their relocation camp when they return to visit after liberation?
(a) That the place is now erased of all Japanese culture.
(b) That the place is now full of Japanese culture.
(c) That the place is full of anti-Japanese propaganda.
(d) That the place is an even mix of Japanese and French culture.

4. What traumatic incident does Naomi remember witnessing with the animals that she was raising?
(a) Her father killing one of her animals for dinner.
(b) Her brother drowning one of her animals.
(c) A mother animal killing its baby.
(d) A large hawk swooping down and stealing one of her animals.

5. Which of the following descriptions does NOT describe Obasan as Naomi sees her?
(a) Obasan has a hump growing on her back.
(b) Obasan is almost deaf.
(c) Obasan is going blind.
(d) Obasan has a gummy mouth.

Short Answer Questions

1. What part of a woman's dress is given to the mother on the train so that she can fashion a diaper for her baby?

2. For how many years are Naomi and her family in relocation?

3. What does Naomi help Nomura-obasan use while she is living with the Nakane family?

4. What event were the Japanese-Canadians subjected to, an event that Naomi remembers frequently experienced?

5. What is Naomi afraid may be hiding in the grass?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was interesting about the marriage between Naomi's parents?

2. How did Naomi react to the date that she went on with her student's widowed father?

3. How does the family react to the news that the war is over?

4. As a child, how does Naomi cope with the relocation and the internment of her family?

5. At the onset of the labor camps, what happens to Naomi's family?

6. How does the neighborhood say goodbye to the Nakane family when they are relocated from Slocan?

7. What was life like for Naomi while she was living on the beet farm?

8. What is the story of Momotaro?

9. While Naomi is recovering in the hospital, what does she remember about the schoolboys that had a penchant for making things suffer?

10. What was Naomi's relationship to Old Man Gower?

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