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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. Where does Mr. Sakane have to accompany the police?

2. What do the newlyweds do instead of leaving the camp?

3. What does Mrs. Sakane read everyday?

4. Who is registered as the head of the Sakane household?

5. Who can the Sakane family hear through the wall?

Short Essay Questions

1. Summarize chapter seven.

2. What new role does Ken assume in chapter four?

3. Why can Japanese people not go to university on the West Coast?

4. What do the Sakane family do while waiting for Mr. Sakane to arrive home?

5. Summarize chapter eight.

6. Why does Yuki's mother annoy her at the beginning of chapter five?

7. What does the FBI officer tell people who phone the Sakane house?

8. Describe the Sakanes' new living space.

9. What does Yuki state as her like and dislikes in the opening chapter?

10. How does Yuki show her love for America in chapter seven?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose one of the following and discuss how it affects the tone of the novel and helps to express character and theme.

1. Setting

2. Point of view

3. Structure

4. Language

Essay Topic 2

What problems do Yuki's generation face? How are the problems for Yuki's generation different to the problems her parents generation faced? Identify and discuss a significant problem facing your generation.

Essay Topic 3

Why do you think Uchida ends the novel like she does? How else do you think she could have ended the novel? What meaning would that new ending have given the novel?

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