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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What Native Americans told Sunny about her mother's interest in Native American Indian foods?

2. What color coat is Schiff wearing as the internees arrive?

3. At Manzanar, how many people do the barracks house?

4. What is the date at the beginning of "The First Property of Thirst"?

5. In "The First Property of Thirst," what mountain can Rocky see?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was Rocky disappointed when he visited Walden Pond?

2. What happens when Hauser, Schiff, and Macauley go to Three Chairs to get permission to build an airstrip?

3. Why is Schiff invited to dinner at Three Chairs?

4. Why was there a clinic at Three Chairs?

5. Within hours of arriving in Lone Pine, what progress does Lt. Jay Svevo make?

6. How did Sunny, Tops, Cas, and Stryker create their own patterns of eating?

7. What does Lou's look like?

8. Why does Rocky's ranch have a bell tower?

9. After Schiff signs the requisitions for 200 people to start work on Manzanar, why is he worried about where to put them and how does Jay solve that problem?

10. What does Sunny do after learning about the bombing at Pearl Harbor?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Rocky had a challenging relationship with his father. What does the relationship Rocky had with his father and that he had with Stryker reveal about father/son relationships and their challenges?

Essay Topic 2

Schiff enlists in the Army. Why does Schiff enlist?

Essay Topic 3

Artistic license is the way that an author creates, art, music, or writing based upon her interpretation of life. How does Wiggins use artistic license to create the realistic background of Properties of Thirst?

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