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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Enlisting in the army, for Kabuo, was a matter of
(a) Traveling to his homeland
(b) Honor and duty
(c) Getting an education
(d) Money and opportunity

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

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

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

6. Hatsue visits the hollow cedar throughout her childhood to
(a) Make her parents worry
(b) Meet boys
(c) Take daytime naps
(d) Think

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

8. Hatsue tells Ishmael they have both gotten good at
(a) Outsmarting their parents
(b) Being devious
(c) Cutting school
(d) Lying to themselves

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

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

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

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

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

14. Why did Kabuo's father bury the swords and other belongings in the strawberry field?
(a) He wanted to claim the land for his own
(b) He thought he could preserve his personal history
(c) He wanted to bury everything from his past
(d) He knew they would be taken from him because of the war

15. Nels opens up the possibility that the wound on Carl's head could have come from
(a) Propulsion rather than a blow
(b) A drunken stagger
(c) A broken mast
(d) A fall before he went over

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Ishmael's father prints instructions in his paper about

3. The islanders know that the outcome of this storm

4. As a coroner, Horace Whaley

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

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