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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why doesn't Papa return to Japan?
(a) The size of his family
(b) He is wanted in Japan for murder
(c) He wants to move to China
(d) His law degree is the United States

2. How long is Kiyo gone from the family barracks?
(a) Two weeks
(b) Three months
(c) Three days
(d) One week

3. When did Jeanne's father come to the United States?
(a) 1895
(b) 1936
(c) 1940
(d) 1908

4. Of what is Jeanne afraid?
(a) Asians
(b) Clowns
(c) Boats
(d) Causasians

5. What do many people wear as they arrive in the camps?
(a) Bathing suits
(b) Aloha shirts
(c) Sweaters
(d) Heavy coats

6. What do Jeanne and the other women go to do?
(a) Pick oranges in the orchard
(b) Wash laundry
(c) See off the fishing fleet
(d) Shop at the market

7. What does Papa do to Mama?
(a) Brings her flowers
(b) Breaks her leg
(c) Threatens her with his cane
(d) Forces her to sleep outside

8. How long is it between the time that Jeanne's father is arrested and the next time that they see him?
(a) Four months
(b) Three days
(c) Five years
(d) Almost a year

9. What draws families apart on Manzanar?
(a) The close quarters
(b) Sickness
(c) The barbed wire
(d) The separate men's and women's sections

10. What does Jeanne's father have that he feels guarantees his arrest?
(a) A medal of honor from the Japanese government
(b) A typewriter
(c) A commercial fishing license
(d) A son who lives in Japan

11. What do the other people at the camp consider Papa to be?
(a) A hero
(b) A unionist
(c) A collaborator
(d) A criminal

12. Why are the Japanese held in Manzanar?
(a) To protect them from angry Caucasians
(b) As Japanese, their loyality is questionable to Caucasians
(c) They are plotting against the United States
(d) To protect them from the Japanese military

13. What happens to Papa's nose?
(a) Kiyo bloodies it
(b) He breaks it while drunk
(c) He runs into a door
(d) The camp head punches him

14. Who arrives at the camp to take care of the orphans?
(a) The Red Cross
(b) Teachers
(c) A group of Japanese Americans from Nebraska
(d) Nuns

15. What song does Papa sing?
(a) The Battle Hymn of the Republic
(b) The United States national anthem
(c) It's a Small World
(d) The Japanese national anthem

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the FBI find in many of the houses they search?

2. What is the greatest humiliation in the camps?

3. What crowds the barracks?

4. What is Mama furious about that first day?

5. How many internment camps are there for Japanese-Americans?

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