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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 does the experience of visiting the family show Woody?

2. To what area does most of the family move?

3. How does Papa decide that the family is going to travel back to Los Angeles?

4. What ends all hope for staying at Manzanar?

5. Who is Jeanne's oldest sister?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. As she ages, how does Jeanne feel about Manzanar? How does she deal with her time there?

3. What activities does Jeanne try? How does she feel about each?

4. What is Jeanne's recurring dream? Why does this dream not come true for Jeanne?

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

6. How does Jeanne's relationship with her father change? Who does she turn to?

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

8. What does Papa want to do after they leave Manzanar? How does he think he will accomplish this?

9. What happens to Jeanne during her senior year of high school? What adds to Jeanne's differentness in the circumstance?

10. Who are the first people in Jeanne's family to leave the camp? Where do the members of her family go?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Trace Jeanne's feelings about her Japanese heritage through the events of the book. Which events have an impact on her self-image? How do the events make her feel about her Japanese heritage?

Essay Topic 2

What was the December Riot? What were people upset about? What happened during the riot? Do you think the people were right to feel the way that they did? How do you think you would feel in a similar circumstance? Why?

Essay Topic 3

Although they are interned, the individuals in the camps engag in small (and larger) acts of resistance against their imprisonment and the discrimination. What are some of these acts of resistance? What do the acts accomplish? Why do you think the internees use these acts of resistance?

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