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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What senator said that the Japanese "cannot be assimilated" (111)?
(a) Tom Stewart.
(b) Alben W. Barkley.
(c) Ellison D. Smith.
(d) Joseph F. Guffey.

2. What questions on a questionaire on page 114 were particularly contentious?
(a) 1 and 2.
(b) 27 and 28.
(c) 18 and 19.
(d) 15 and 16.

3. How many days after Hiroshima was bombed was Nagasaki also bombed?
(a) 3.
(b) 4.
(c) 5.
(d) 2.

4. What sound on page 105 indicated that Santa was coming?
(a) Jingle jingle.
(b) Sound of hooves.
(c) Noise on the roof.
(d) Ho ho ho.

5. What did Henry tell the guards he wanted?
(a) Soda and hot dog.
(b) Candy, ice cream, and bike.
(c) Ice cream and cake.
(d) Bubble gum, popsicle, and a tricycle.

6. How many men from the 442nd were sent to Bavaria as prisoners?
(a) 28.
(b) 39.
(c) 56.
(d) 42.

7. What were the names of two boys who wanted to tell George and Henry a magic word?
(a) Bob and Bill.
(b) Mercedes and Dodge.
(c) Ford and Chevy.
(d) Mike and Dan.

8. When were the men of the 442nd who were sent to Bavaria as prisoners liberated?
(a) January 1945.
(b) April 1945.
(c) March 1945.
(d) February 1945.

9. What type of hat did Fumiko give Takekuma when they were driving outside the camp?
(a) Boater.
(b) Ball cap.
(c) Straw hat.
(d) Bowler.

10. When the Takei family left Camp Rohwer, how long were they told it would take to reach Tule Lake?
(a) 5 days.
(b) 8 days.
(c) 3 days.
(d) 4 days.

11. When did George remember seeing the real Santa?
(a) 2 years ago.
(b) When he was 3.
(c) Last year.
(d) When he was 2.

12. What did George and Henry catch on page 81?
(a) Butterfly.
(b) Squirrel.
(c) Mouse.
(d) Firefly.

13. What age did the Japanese-Americans have to be to complete a questionaire that was passed out on page 114?
(a) 18 or older.
(b) 21 or older.
(c) 17 or older.
(d) 20 or older.

14. For their first Christmas Eve dinner at the camp, what did everyone have to eat?
(a) Ham and mashed potatoes.
(b) Fried chicken and mashed potatoes.
(c) Roast beef and baked potatoes.
(d) Roast chicken, sweet potatoes, and rice.

15. On page 144, what was the reason for the protest that made George and his father run to safety?
(a) Arrest of a man accused as a radical.
(b) Arrest of a woman.
(c) Arrest of a teenager.
(d) Arrest of a man accused of stealing.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was a special all-Nisei military unit created?

2. What did George say that seeing snow felt like?

3. On page 119, how many casulties did the 442nd suffer?

4. When was the medal that the men of the 442nd upgraded?

5. How many layers of barbed wire were on the barbed-wire fence at Tule Lake?

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