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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. Why has the girl still not written to her father?
(a) Because every day seems like the next.
(b) Because it is hard to get paper.
(c) Because she is not sure what to say.
(d) Because she is too sad.

2. The girl and boy work together on a drawing of __________________.
(a) their father.
(b) their school.
(c) their house.
(d) their cat.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the Japanese Emperor?

2. What does the boy sometimes wonder about why his father was sent away and the rest of the family sent to the desert?

3. Which of the following is NOT one of the boy's favorite interests?

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

5. What is an ever-present nuisance for the families?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

4. What is the timing of the relocation effort and why was the woman's husband arrested prior to this relocation?

5. Describe the family's experience at Tanforan as explained by the girl.

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

7. Describe how the woman goes about packing up the family's belongings.

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

9. Why had the boy packed a pair of his father's shoes in his suitcase to bring with him to the camp?

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

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