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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 does the mother look for a job?
(a) All the money is gone.
(b) She wants to be patriotic.
(c) She is bored.
(d) She needs adult interaction.

2. What does someone throw through a window of the house one night?
(a) A statue.
(b) A rock.
(c) A brick.
(d) A whiskey bottle.

3. What is geta?
(a) Japanese footwear.
(b) Japanese rice.
(c) Japanese wine.
(d) Japanese paper.

4. Who buries the boy's pet tortoise?
(a) The mother.
(b) The boy.
(c) The sister.
(d) A guard.

5. Who had convinced the mother to rent the house to tenants while they were gone?
(a) A neighbor.
(b) A friend.
(c) A minister.
(d) A lawyer.

Short Answer Questions

1. The father sarcastically says that he is the grinning fat man in the straw hat selling _______________ by the side of the road.

2. How long had the family been gone from its home?

3. How much money is the family given when released from the internment camp?

4. Why does the family hardly recognize the father when they see him?

5. When the boy's sister comes in at night she smells like __________________.

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the boy and the mother talk about regarding what they miss most about their old lives?

2. Describe how the Army is ruthless in its treatment of the internees.

3. What does the father want to imply to whoever is hearing his confession?

4. Who does the father address in his confession in Chapter 5?

5. Describe what the family did after the father's arrest when they did not know what had happened to him.

6. Why does the mother have to find a job and why does she have a difficult time doing so?

7. Explain the financial situation of the family when they leave the camp.

8. Describe how the winter takes its toll on the people in the camps.

9. What does the father "admit" to doing that made him a threat to the U.S.?

10. How long had the family been away from their home and what has being institutionalized done to their sense of fear at night?

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