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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. San Piedro's hills are green with
(a) Pine and fir forest
(b) Agriculture
(c) Mint farming
(d) Cedar trees

3. Ishmael wants very much to talk to
(a) The defendant, himself
(b) The defendant's wife
(c) The defendant's father
(d) The defendant's son

4. Many Japanese workers sent money to Japan to buy
(a) Passage home
(b) Wives
(c) Sake
(d) Gold

5. As Japanese Americans are being arrested, Ishmael blindly thinks
(a) All Japanese workers will be exempt
(b) The government will not bother with San Piedro
(c) He can save Hatsue
(d) That he and Hatsue will be together forever

6. After the Pearl Harbor attack, the Japanese on San Piedro Island
(a) Began to chant and meditate
(b) Stopped working in the fields
(c) Locked themselves in their homes
(d) Pledged their loyaty to the U.S.

7. Etta does not want Carl to sell any acreage to Zenhichi Miyamoto because
(a) He might let the land fail
(b) He is not trustworthy
(c) He lives carelessly
(d) He is Japanese and she is racist

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

9. Nels Gundersson gets Horace Whaley to admit that
(a) A rounded object hit Carl's hand
(b) Carl's head wound caused his death
(c) Carl Heine died from drowning
(d) Carl was dead before he went into the ocean

10. As children, Hatsue and Ishmael hunt together for
(a) Oysters
(b) Geoducks
(c) Horses
(d) Mallard ducks

11. What does Hatsue do when Ishmael proposes marriage?
(a) Cries
(b) Runs away
(c) Goes silent
(d) Screams

12. The darkness in Carl Heine's personality, as well as in Horace Whaley's is a result of
(a) Fishing and eking out a living
(b) Fighting in World War II
(c) Mistrust and suspicion
(d) Working on the island since childhood

13. Sumiko intervenes in Hatsue's life by
(a) Introducing her to Kabuo
(b) Intercepting a letter from Ishmael
(c) Tormenting Hatsue at Manzanar
(d) Telling their mother about Kabuo's intentions

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

15. Land leased by Miyamoto was to go to Kabuo when
(a) Etta said it was time
(b) Kabuo reached the age of twenty
(c) The war started
(d) Half the payments were made

Short Answer Questions

1. As a young child, Hatsue was carefully trained to

2. The significance of the four pieces of mooring line is

3. Over a period of four years, Ishmael and Hatsue met and spent time

4. The abusive sergeant from J Company who lectured the men at the seawall

5. In the courtroom, the Japanese attendees sat

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