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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Sometimes the boy thinks he is dreaming and will wake up to see his father ____________________.
(a) reading the newspaper.
(b) mowing the lawn.
(c) washing the car.
(d) cooking breakfast.

2. What month is it as the girl, her brother and mother are on a train?
(a) March 1943.
(b) September 1942.
(c) December 1941.
(d) June 1945.

3. In the camp there are rules about what words cannot be said and about _________________.
(a) eating.
(b) bathing.
(c) singing.
(d) sleeping.

4. The girl has a collection of __________________ from her father.
(a) match books.
(b) newspaper articles.
(c) postcards.
(d) ribbons.

5. What does the woman do with the cat since pets are not permitted at the internment camp?
(a) She takes it to a shelter.
(b) She gives it to the neighbor.
(c) She gives it to their minister.
(d) She lets it run away.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year does the story begin?

2. What does the boy's mother ration?

3. Which of the following is NOT true about the family's experience at Tanforan Racetrack?

4. The girl remembers a vacation to the location in #47 where she had _____________ for dinner every night.

5. The boy has a picture of whom fastened to the wall?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the irony of the picture the boy hangs on his wall in the camp?

2. What does the woman do to the old dog?

3. How does the author show that the family is all-American and hardly a threat to U.S. security?

4. Who is Mrs. Ueno and how does she act with the boy's mother in the camp?

5. How are Japanese-Americans notified that they are to be relocated and what indicates that people are preparing?

6. Describe the last ordinary night the family has in their home.

7. How do the boy and his camp friends show more naivete than harmful intentions in some of their games and habits?

8. How does the father recognize the girl's birthday even though he is incarcerated?

9. What is the girl prompted to remember when viewing the image on a playing card?

10. What does the boy think he might have done that caused the family to be in such distressing situations?

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