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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 news arrives via telegram one day?
(a) The father is very ill.
(b) The father is returning.
(c) The father has been sent to Japan.
(d) The father is dead.

2. What had the mother buried in the yard before leaving?
(a) The family heirlooms.
(b) The coin collection.
(c) The silverware.
(d) The family's cash.

3. What stereotype do many Americans at the time make about Japanese people?
(a) They have great business acumen.
(b) They are good accountants.
(c) They all look alike.
(d) They do not appreciate life in America.

4. What job does the mother ultimately get?
(a) A restaurant cook.
(b) A dry cleaner's worker.
(c) Cleaning houses and taking in laundry.
(d) A grocery checkout girl.

5. When the boy's sister comes in at night she smells like __________________.
(a) beer.
(b) cigarettes.
(c) after-shave lotion.
(d) horses.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the boy listens to the radio at night, he imagines himself to be ______________________.

2. Why can the father not work in the company he had worked for before?

3. Why is the boy worried about his sister?

4. What was the father wearing on the night he was taken away from his house?

5. The father sarcastically admits to cutting arrow-shaped swaths through which fields?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does the boy learn about the details of another boy's father's arrest that is more disturbing than his own father's arrest?

4. What could account for the family's not receiving much mail while they were detained in the camp?

5. How do people in town react to the family when they return from the camp?

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

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

8. Describe the room where the father was first taken for questioning.

9. What are the physical and psychological states of the camp in the autumn of 1942?

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

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