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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Etta Heine testifies that her family and the Miyamotos were
(a) Childhood friends
(b) Distant friends
(c) Acquaintances
(d) Enemies

2. Susan Marie Heine says that she knew
(a) Carl was careless about his boat
(b) Carl was intoxicated when he left
(c) Carl was suicidal
(d) Carl's death would happen some day

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

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

5. As a coroner, Horace Whaley
(a) Has never done an autopsy
(b) Has seen only two dead bodies
(c) Has seen many dead bodies
(d) Knows very little about drowning

6. Whaley challenges Art Moran and asks him if he wants to play
(a) Kendo stick games
(b) Sherlock Holmes
(c) Coroner
(d) In a fishing contest

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

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

9. After the kiss on the beach, Ishmael finds himself
(a) Having dreams of other girls
(b) Bothering Hatsue
(c) Ignoring Hatsue
(d) Spying on Hatsue

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

11. 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

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

13. In daydreams in his jail cell, Kabuo wanders around
(a) Manzanar
(b) Piedo Island and the sea
(c) Italy
(d) Seattle

14. Ishmael, as a boy, tells Hatsue that the oceans
(a) Are separated by volcanoes
(b) Are all salt water
(c) Mix into one big ocean underneath
(d) Are really lava underneath

15. Fujiko is furious that Hatsue was seeing a white boy, but also because
(a) Hatsue's school work was affected
(b) Hatsue's reptuation was ruined
(c) Hatsue has been lying to her
(d) Hatsue set a bad example for Sumiko

Short Answer Questions

1. Ole Jurgensen bought the old Miyamoto house as a place for his

2. Carl Heine is described as being

3. When his arm was amputated, Ishmael's anger seems to be directed toward

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

5. After their last meeting in the tree, Hatsue leaves feeling

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