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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 was the name of the Commander's daughter who was friends with Suzy Komoko?

2. How many calves did Kai Tajima bring illegally from Japan through Canada?

3. What type of horses do the Gundersons breed?

4. What gang left money when Schiff's mother passed out and fell down steps to an alley when she was picking up piecework?

5. What animal bit Snow and required him to be treated by Lou?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Sunny's fiance, and why has he left the Valley?

2. Why do Sunny and Rocky freeze when Lyndon asks if he can make Cas her martini?

3. What did Sunny ask herself about those days in Paris later when she returned home and how did she try to figure out what she had thought then?

4. Why does Lyndon Finn come to visit Rocky?

5. What did Hace tell Sunny when she went to see him?

6. What is the barracks like that Schiff lives in at the camp?

7. How does Snow shoot Rhodes in "The Eight Property of Thirst"?

8. What did Schiff's parents bring with them when they immigrated to the United States?

9. How is Passover celebrated at Manzanar?

10. How did Sunny and Cas travel to New York?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The Passover is an important holiday on the Jewish calendar. How and why does Svevo want to celebrate Passover at Manzanar?

Essay Topic 2

Sunny and Stryker are twins. What type of relationship do they have? What role does Sunny have to play in their relationship and why?

Essay Topic 3

Accumulation is a literary device that allows an author to gather scattered ideas in a literary work and gradually build on information readers need to know. From whose perspective are various sections told? How does each section add information? How does the use of multiple viewpoints allow Wiggins to use accumulation to advance the plot and provide important details to readers?

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