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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. What item does Jeanne's mother refuse to sell, deciding instead to break it?

2. Who has meals brought to him or her instead of eating in the mess hall?

3. What does Papa demand?

4. What is true about Papa?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the camp separate Jeanne's family from each other?

2. How does the family feel about moving to Manzanar?

3. What happens as all the Japanese American families are forced to leave Terminal Island? How does Mama deal with this humiliating event?

4. What do the people at Manzanar call Papa? Why?

5. What are the barracks like in the camp?

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

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

8. What is the most important day in Jeanne's life? Why?

9. What are Jeanne's experiences in school and in the neighborhood after the family is forced to move from Ocean Park?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How do Jeanne and her family feel about Manzanar? Why do you think they feel this way? How are their feelings contradictory? How do you think you would feel in the same situation?

Essay Topic 2

Jeanne faces many life-changing experiences in the book. What event do you think had the greatest effect on Jeanne? Why did it have the greatest effect? How did the event change Jeanne's life? Use specific examples from the book to back up your argument.

Essay Topic 3

What are the events that lead to the creation of Manzanar? Why do you think the government chose to create the internment camps? Do you agree or disagree with this decision? Why?

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