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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. Where does the boy find his sister in the middle of the night one night?
(a) Reading with a flashlight.
(b) Digging in the dirt with a spoon.
(c) Dancing in the moonlight.
(d) Crying by the fence.

2. Because his father is listed as a dangerous enemy alien, the boy envisions him as ___________________.
(a) a space creature.
(b) a Russian.
(c) an Old West outlaw.
(d) a spy.

3. Chapter 5 is told from the perspective of _________________.
(a) the father.
(b) a guard.
(c) the mother.
(d) the boy.

4. How much money is the family given when released from the internment camp?
(a) $200.
(b) $2500.
(c) $25.
(d) $150.

5. How do most people in town greet the family?
(a) Joyfully.
(b) Angrily.
(c) Enthusiastically.
(d) Coolly.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is one family in camp sent back to Japan?

2. Which of the following is NOT one of the things the boy's mother says she misses most?

3. Soldiers return home from the war with stories of _______________________.

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

5. What does the mother recall that she had been too tired to get the father the night he was taken away?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why does the mother leave one of the father's suits hanging in the closet?

5. What has incarceration done to the father and why do his children hardly recognize him when he comes home?

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

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

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

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

10. From whose perspective is Chapter 5 told and what is the nature of the chapter?

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