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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 needs to be escorted to the train station to protect them from the crowds?

2. Jeanne is chosen as ________ in high school.

3. Who is Jeanne's oldest sister?

4. When Jeanne goes to Manzanar, she find everything ________.

5. At what lessons does Jeanne succeed?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Jeanne find when she visits Manzanar? How does this make her feel?

2. How does Papa change after the Loyalty Oath?

3. What small freedoms are the people in the camp allowed as time passes? How does Jeanne feel about this?

4. After the Loyalty Oath, what does the camp become like?

5. What three cases go to the Supreme Court? What are the decisions on them?

6. What is Jeanne's reaction to the outside world? What double impulse does she have?

7. How do Mama, Papa, and the others in the camp react to the possibility of leaving the camp? What makes staying in the camp impossible?

8. What do Jeanne and her father wait for at the firebreak? What does Mama tell them?

9. How do Papa's family react to Woody's visit? What do they show him?

10. How do Jeanne and her family feel as Woody leaves for the Army? How do others in the camp feel as the men leave?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What was the purpose of the internment camps? Dido they fulfill their purpose? Why or why not? Do you think the camps were right? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

The theme of disloyalty runs through the events in the book. At which people or groups is this label directed? What effect does this have? Why do you think these people are thought to be disloyal? Is the assumption right or wrong? How do you think you would react to having this label placed on you?

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