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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. How many days after Hiroshima was bombed was Nagasaki also bombed?

2. Who taught George and Henry to roll a ball for a snowman?

3. What would older boys at Rohwer play?

4. Where was a special all-Nisei military unit created?

5. When was it decreed that Japanese could service in the U.S. military?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was exciting to George when winter arrived?

2. How did George and Henry feel when they saw a hog on a farm?

3. Who was Herbert Nicholson?

4. Who was Daniel K. Inouye?

5. Where did the Takei family go in a Jeep on page 97?

6. Why did Takekuma and Fumiko answer no on questions 27 and 28 on a questionaire from the U.S. government?

7. What special dinner was served at the camp on Christmas Eve?

8. Why did George think the Santa Claus that came to the camp was not the real Santa Claus?

9. What was a benshi?

10. What were the only terms under which some of the young men would fight, and what happened to them because of their stand?

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

Many detainees struggled with how to answer a loyalty questionnaire. Why did the loyalty questionnaire cause a moral dilemma for many of the detainees?

Essay Topic 3

George’s father was a strong supporter of American democracy. Why was George’s father such a strong supporter of American democracy? Why was it ironic that he defended American democracy?

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