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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Liesel Jurgensen thought Susan Marie would be happy Carl bought the farm because
(a) It was the Heine's old farm
(b) Fisherman are always gone at night
(c) She loves strawberries
(d) They have two strong children for picking

2. Among other ailments, attorney Nels Gundersson
(a) Is partially crippled
(b) Is partially deaf
(c) Is missing one arm
(d) Is blind in one eye

3. Kabuo feels he will be exiled from his family in order to
(a) Feel better about the crimes he has committed
(b) Make them better appreciate him
(c) Pay a debt to the dead in Italy
(d) Free them from his own depression

4. Upon seeing Carl Heine's corpse, Abel Martinson
(a) Cried
(b) Screamed
(c) Ran
(d) Vomited

5. Ole and Leisel Jurgensen had two visitors on the same day--September 7. They were
(a) Kabuo Miyamoto and Carl Heine, Jr.
(b) Susan Marie Heine and Etta Heine
(c) Carl Heine, Sr. and Kabuo Miyamoto
(d) Etta Heine and Carl Heine, Sr.

6. On the first afternoon of the trial, the Japanese driver of the disabled school bus
(a) Walked the students to their homes
(b) Helped a boy with a broken ankle
(c) Broke up a snowball fight
(d) Helped with a chimney fire

7. Hatsue ends her relationship with Ishmael by
(a) Asking Sumiko to tell him
(b) Sending a message to him
(c) Writing a letter to him
(d) Letting her mother contact him

8. Sheriff Moran testifies that he
(a) Saw Etta Heine at the scene
(b) Spoke with Etta Heine
(c) Tried to talk with Etta Heine
(d) Was told that Etta was dangerous

9. Ishmael's illness in South Carolina allowed him to
(a) Gather strength for the war
(b) Suffer the way he wanted to
(c) Rest before he saw combat
(d) Recuperate from his emotional pain

10. The significance of the four pieces of mooring line is
(a) They show that boats were connected
(b) They were used to bring the body up
(c) They are all that was left of Carl's gear
(d) They held down the fishing bins

11. Ishmael's father, as the local newspaper owner,
(a) Ignored the Strawberry Festival
(b) Felt the Festival was too racist to cover
(c) Was supportive of the Strawberry Festival celebration
(d) Went to the festival to see the young women

12. Perhaps Kabuo's worst lingering memory of the war was
(a) His best friend's death
(b) The German atrocities
(c) Shooting a child
(d) Storming the beach

13. Over a period of four years, Ishmael and Hatsue met and spent time
(a) In a hollow cedar tree
(b) At the beach
(c) After school in a field
(d) Out in the strawberry fields

14. By 1907, the Port Jefferson Mill records referred to the Japanese workers as
(a) "Jap" and a characteristic
(b) Jap slaves
(c) "Jap" and a number
(d) Jap staffers

15. After their last meeting in the tree, Hatsue leaves feeling
(a) Unwhole
(b) Fulfilled
(c) Angry
(d) Free

Short Answer Questions

1. When Ishmael and Hatsue begin to make love, Hatsue realizes

2. Carl Heine suggests that his wife, Etta, has

3. Hatsue's mother is upset and decides to

4. As a gesture toward his customers, Einar Petersen offered

5. The U.S. Relocation Authority announced that Japanese islanders

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