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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. How do the people in #7 know they are to be relocated?
(a) They got a letter.
(b) They are visited by authorities.
(c) There are signs posted.
(d) They get a telegram.

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

3. The woman packs away comics and _______________ in her son's room.
(a) toys.
(b) trophies.
(c) sports equipment.
(d) video games.

4. What does the boy's father say is the thing he likes most about America?
(a) Baseball.
(b) Picnics.
(c) Jelly donuts.
(d) Vacations.

5. What is the name of the camp where the Japanese-American people will now live?
(a) Tupac.
(b) Talawanda.
(c) Topaz.
(d) Zinc.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the boy listen to on the radio at night?

2. Which magazine shows images from the war?

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

4. What had the person in #86 given to the boy when he left home?

5. What does the girl see in the moonlight when she looks out the train window?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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. Why are the hardware store owner's actions significant?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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