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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. What wakes the people who are sleeping on the train?
(a) A brick thrown through the window.
(b) A gun shot.
(c) The screeching of brakes.
(d) The train's whistle.

2. What does the boy sometimes wonder about why his father was sent away and the rest of the family sent to the desert?
(a) If his father didn't love him anymore.
(b) If the boy did something wrong.
(c) If his father was really sick.
(d) If his father and mother were divorced.

3. Why does the boy's sister wear a Panama hat?
(a) So people will talk about her.
(b) So her face won't get too tan.
(c) So she feels very stylish.
(d) So people won't recognize her.

4. What does the mother tell the boy they will do when the war is over?
(a) Go to Disneyland.
(b) Go to Japan.
(c) Go home.
(d) Go to the Grand Canyon.

5. What does the girl see in the moonlight when she looks out the train window?
(a) Mustangs.
(b) Campfires.
(c) Cars.
(d) Buffalo.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which one in the family is a good artist?

2. What does the War Relocation Authority allow some camp residents to do?

3. At the internment camp in Utah, the boy thinks he sees _______________ everywhere.

4. The hardware store owner compliments the woman on her ___________________.

5. When had the woman's husband been arrested?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the woman's visit to the hardware store.

2. How do the girl's recollection of the family trip to Yosemite and her father's travels provide some insight into the father's arrest?

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

4. What does the boy recall about his father being taken away and what his mother did after that night to try to keep the family safe?

5. How much time has passed since the family's initial move and from whose perspective in Chapter 2 told?

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

7. What does the soldier advise the girl to stop doing on the train and what does he make the train's occupants do while passing through a town in Nevada?

8. How is camp live especially difficult for some people who had important positions in their lives?

9. How is the girl's naivete exhibited when she waves to people from the train?

10. What does the girl tell a man about her father as they wait in line for the restroom?

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