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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Kabuo constantly look inward at himself?
(a) He is guilty of murder during the war
(b) He is angry
(c) He is very self-conscious
(d) He is proud to be Japanese

2. Life at Manzanar is
(a) Difficult and dirty
(b) Good for children
(c) A challenge, but pleasant
(d) Like a spiritual gathering

3. Ole Jurgensen bought the old Miyamoto house as a place for his
(a) Neighbors who were homeless
(b) Children and their children
(c) Manager and pickers
(d) Wife when she was intolerable

4. During the time that Kabuo is in jail
(a) His four year old daughter starts school
(b) His wife meets daily with Sheriff Moran
(c) His daughter becomes Strawberry queen
(d) His baby son learns to walk

5. The adolescent Ishmael accepted the inevitability of
(a) Losing Hatsue to her culture
(b) Loving Hatsue forever
(c) Having a physical relationship with Hatsue
(d) Being separated from Hatsue

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

7. The knife sheath found on Carl Heine's body
(a) Was empty
(b) Was broken
(c) Held a fishing knife
(d) Had twine in it

8. Amity Harbor is
(a) The state capitol
(b) A booming metropolis
(c) A row of docks
(d) San Piedro's only town

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

10. The weather conditions on the water on the night of the murder are
(a) Clear and calm
(b) Heavy fog
(c) Extreme wind
(d) Heavy snow

11. Hatsue's mother is upset and decides to
(a) Write to Hatsue's father
(b) Write to Ishmael's parents
(c) Confiscate Sumiko's mail
(d) Write to Kabuo about Hatsue

12. Kabuo Miyamoto's demeanor at his trial reveals
(a) Fear
(b) Anxiety
(c) Nothing
(d) Anger

13. Etta Heine met her husband, Carl, in
(a) San Piedro
(b) Bavaria
(c) Seattle
(d) North Dakota

14. Hatsue's father is frightened by the Pearl Harbor news and
(a) Makes the family turn out the lights
(b) Takes cover in the family's basement
(c) Searches the sky for planes
(d) Arms himself with swords and knives

15. The defendant in this murder trial is
(a) Abel Martinson
(b) Kaburo Masyimoto
(c) Art Moran
(d) Alvin Hooks

Short Answer Questions

1. Ishmael's illness in South Carolina allowed him to

2. Perhaps Kabuo's worst lingering memory of the war was

3. Art Moran does not want Ishmael to let on

4. Susan Marie Heine says that she knew

5. Nels Gundersson gets Horace Whaley to admit that

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