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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. When the family arrives at the camp, what obscures their vision of it?
(a) A rainstorm
(b) Blowing sand
(c) Fog
(d) Their blindfolds

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

3. Who does Papa think will win the war?
(a) Germany
(b) America
(c) Japan
(d) England

4. Who works on the walls with Kiyo?
(a) Jeanne
(b) Daniel
(c) Woody
(d) Ryan

5. How old is Jeanne when she reaches the camp?
(a) 12
(b) 7
(c) 3
(d) 18

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Papa leave Japan?

2. What do Jeanne and the other women go to do?

3. What does Jeanne's father burn?

4. What word best describes the first month at Manzanar?

5. Who is the first person to run to Papa when the family sees him?

Short Essay Questions

1. What keeps the family going despite the circumstances that they are in at the camp?

2. What do the people of the camp think about this document that the government wants them to sign? Why?

3. What makes Mama angry in the camp? Why?

4. What does Papa do when he hears the gossip about him? How does Kiyo react to Papa?

5. How does Papa leave Japan? Where does he go?

6. What are the barracks like in the camp?

7. What do the men find most disturbing and disgraceful while they are in the camp? Why?

8. What work do members of the family do in the camp? Are they required to work?

9. Why does anti-Asian sentiment increase on the West Coast?

10. What are the camps like? Why are they in this condition?

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