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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who drove the Uchida women back home after they visited Dwight in the detention center in Chapter 3?

2. In his letters from the internment camp, who did Dwight ask be sent a monthly check?

3. How old was Umigaki when she came to the United States?

4. Where were Dwight and some other men being transferred after their initial detention in San Francisco?

5. Where was Yoshiko’s Sunday School class held?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Curtis B. Munson’s report reveal about possible sabotage by Japanese Americans?

2. What illnesses did Yoshiko suffer from?

3. What invalidated the government’s claim that the evacuation of the Japanese from the west coast from a military necessity?

4. What did Grandmother Uchida do to help the pain she had in her back and shoulders?

5. What were the Uchidas doing when they learned about the attack on Pearl Harbor?

6. What was the dominant language in the Uchida home?

7. What did the children do while they waited for the adult church service to end?

8. Why did the FBI break into the Uchidas’ home?

9. How was Dolls Festival Day celebrated at the Uchida home?

10. What types of handwork did Iku create?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Yoshiko believed that the experiences she and her family endured because of the evacuations actually made them stronger individuals. What qualities helped the Uchidas to survive? How did Dwight and Iku maintain the values that had sustained them all their lives? How did their faith help them survive? Did Yoshiko believe that she and her sister would have survived without their parents? How did their parents’ example help the girls be strong? Why did Yoshiko believe the experiences made the family stronger?

Essay Topic 2

In 1943, Japanese Americans were allowed and encouraged to serve in the United States military. Why weren’t they allowed to serve in the military from June of 1942 to January of 1943? Why did President Roosevelt believe that the Nisei should finally be allowed to serve? How were the Nisei to be allowed to serve? Why not integrate them throughout the army? Why were some Issei disdainful of the plan to allow Japanese Americans in the military? Why was it hypocritical for the United States to be asking the Nisei to enlist? How did this new policy cause tremendous turmoil at Topaz? What struggle did the Nisei face as they considered whether to enlist or not?

Essay Topic 3

Yoshiko felt that the United States blatantly ignored the Constitution when they rounded up the Japanese and sent them to camps. Which Amendments to the Constitution should have given the Japanese protection? Who were some of those responsible for spreading rumors about alleged Japanese involvement in the bombing of Pearl Harbor? What there any proof that the Japanese were involved in the bombing? Was there any proof that they were not involved?

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