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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 of the internees held at Tule Lake were children?

2. What animals did George and Henry see when they drove outside of camp?

3. When was the Takei family relocated to another internment camp?

4. When did George remember seeing the real Santa?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Chevy and Ford tell George and Henry?

2. What was a benshi?

3. Who was Daniel K. Inouye?

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

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

6. Who was Herbert Nicholson?

7. What were the actions of the 442nd and what did they suffer?

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

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

10. What happened in August of 1945 and how did Japanese-Americans feel about it?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Fumiko brought toys and treats for the boys on the train. Why was bringing toys and treats a sacrifice for Fumiko? How did she care for her family during the trip and their internment? Who did she always put first? What did her actions reveal about motherhood and sacrifice?

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

After Pearl Harbor was bombed, government officials wanted to lock up anyone of Japanese descent. Were any trials held to see if the Japanese who were interned were spies? Was the internment constitutional? In what way was the internment unjust?

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