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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. As a gesture toward his customers, Einar Petersen offered
(a) Free canned goods
(b) A warm woodstove
(c) Donuts
(d) Free coffee

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

12. Art Moran does not want Ishmael to let on
(a) That the accident happened in the water
(b) That there was anything unusual about Hatsue
(c) That Heine's death was being investigated
(d) That Carl's head was injured

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

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

15. Ole Jurgensen wants to sell his farm now because
(a) His interest in farming has waned
(b) He wants to move on to better things
(c) He wants to live in the city
(d) He has had a stroke

Short Answer Questions

1. Upon seeing Carl Heine's corpse, Abel Martinson

2. Ishmael wants very much to talk to

3. When a new wave of amtracs came on the beach, Ishmael was

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

5. Hatsue's mother is upset and decides to

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