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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 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.

2. This book is about a ________________________ family.
(a) African-American.
(b) Chinese-American.
(c) Irish-American.
(d) Japanese-American.

3. Who is the mother's former housekeeper who is also at the camp?
(a) Mrs. Itou
(b) Mrs. Kobayashi
(c) Mrs. Saitou
(d) Mrs. Ueno.

4. The hardware store owner compliments the woman on her ___________________.
(a) new home.
(b) new glasses.
(c) new hairstyle.
(d) new hat.

5. What does the woman fix for dinner?
(a) Chicken.
(b) Steak.
(c) Stew.
(d) Pork.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who took the boy's father away in the middle of the night?

2. What does a soldier tell the occupants of the train to do while they pass through a town in Nevada?

3. The story is told about the period of _________________.

4. The girl has a collection of __________________ from her father.

5. Sometimes the boy thinks he is dreaming and will wake up to see his father ____________________.

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the girl lie about her father to to the man named Ted?

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

3. Describe the living conditions of the mother, the boy and the girl in Utah.

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

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

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

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

8. 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?

9. Where is the family headed in September 1942 and where had they been living since the spring of the year?

10. What is the boy's life like at the camp?

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