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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 is the father's attitude now?
(a) Anxious to rebuild his life.
(b) Content with his life.
(c) Bitter toward the world.
(d) Joyful at the chance to travel again.

2. The family learns that a possible reason they had not received mail from friends is because ____________________.
(a) the mailman told them it was a crime to send letters to internees.
(b) they did not know where to address the letters.
(c) postage costs were too prohibitive.
(d) there was a shortage of stationery items during the war.

3. The father admits to sabotaging _________________.
(a) industry.
(b) the post office.
(c) the transportation system.
(d) the broadcast network.

4. What personal element from his father did the boy save?
(a) Hair.
(b) Cuff links.
(c) Shaving razor.
(d) Clothes brush.

5. The father admits to poisoning the water and ______________.
(a) soft drinks.
(b) food.
(c) medications.
(d) vitamins.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the father say is what he most wanted to say about everything?

2. What happens to the family in Chapter 4?

3. At school the teachers and other students are polite but ______________.

4. Who had convinced the mother to rent the house to tenants while they were gone?

5. What happened to the money from the house rental?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the author show that the characters are not considered to be real people, but rather just nameless prisoners?

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

3. What agreement did the mother have with a lawyer and how did he abuse that agreement?

4. What is the social environment like for the Japanese-Americans when they return home?

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 leave one of the father's suits hanging in the closet?

7. What is the father's tone during his confession in this chapter?

8. What does the father say is what he most wanted to say to everyone during his confession?

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

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

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