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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. How long did it take Yoshiko to finish high school?

2. What type of grades did Yoshiko get in elementary school?

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

4. When did Dwight become an employee of Mitsui and Company?

5. Where did Yoshiko go after she learned about Pearl Harbor?

Short Essay Questions

1. What constitutional amendments were ignored during the evacuation?

2. How did the neighbors treat the Uchida family as the evacuation drew near?

3. What happened one evening when Yoshiko and friends were having a snack at a Berkeley restaurant?

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

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

6. Why did many Nisei students begin leaving the university?

7. How was the Uchida’s church founded?

8. After Yoshiko and her sister and mother visited Dwight at the detention center, why did they fear they would never see him again?

9. What did Grandmother Uchida do that showed she was a devout Christian?

10. How did Dwight’s family struggle when he was growing up?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In Tanforan and Topaz, there were climate adjustments that the Uchidas and others had to make. How were the climates different in Berkeley, Tanforan, and Topaz? What physical ailments were caused by the climates in Tanforan and Topaz? Was it more difficult to adjust to one climate than another?

Essay Topic 2

In Chapter 3, Yoshiko told about mixed reactions to the bombing at Pearl Harbor. How did most of the Japanese that Yoshiko knew, including her family, feel when they heard the news? Why weren’t they concerned? How did the white people feel when they heard the news? Why was there such a varied reaction to the news?

Essay Topic 3

The Army’s official euphemism for the forced removal of the Japanese was evacuation. Were the Japanese removed from the west coast for their safety? Where, in some minds, did the danger lie? Why would it have been more truthful for the Army to have said that the Japanese were being interned or imprisoned?

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