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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. On page 46, how many internment sites were shown?

2. Where were George's parents married?

3. What generation were the Issei Japanese Americans?

4. What did Fumiko bring that surprised everyone when they arrived at Rohwer?

5. When the Takei family was allowed off the train for the first time, what were they to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. How were the Takei family taken to their quarters at the internment camp?

2. What was Executive Order 9066?

3. What did Fletcher Bowron, mayor of Los Angeles, testify about the Japanese?

4. What discussions did George used to have with his father when he was a teenager?

5. What was George's mother's history?

6. In the spring of 1942, why had many Japanese already lost much of what they owned?

7. Where was the internment camp that the Takei family was taken to and what was it called?

8. How was the journey to the internment camp different for the boys than for the grownups?

9. What was George's father history?

10. Who was Earl Warren and what was his role in having the Japanese interred?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The Japanese-Americans made Rohwer their home and a community. How did the Japanese-Americans solve problems and work together? How did working together help them build a community?

Essay Topic 2

The Japanese were hated for their racial heritage. How did the Japanese-Americans experience xenophobia after the bombing of Pearl Harbor?

Essay Topic 3

After Pearl Harbor was bombed, there were many conflicts between Japanese-Americans and other Americans. How did conflict affect George and others in the book? Were the conflicts mostly man vs. man, man vs. nature, or man vs. self? Were they internal or external conflicts?

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