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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 are the Sakanes' belongings loaded onto?

2. What is Ken studying for?

3. What do the Japanese Americans have to do at 8 p.m. every night?

4. What is the name of family 13452?

5. Which of her father's flowers does Yuki sit among as she waits for her father to return?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do the Japanese have to sell their belongings so cheaply?

2. How does Ken's friend Jim help the Sakane family in chapter six?

3. Why do the internees at the camp wear bandannas?

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

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

6. How do the Sakanes meet the Kurihara family?

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

8. Summarize chapter seven.

9. Summarize chapter eight.

10. Why is Yuki angry with her mother in the second chapter?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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.

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