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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Kenji receive the car for free?
(a) He won it in a raffle.
(b) Uncle Sam gave it to him for being a good hospital patient.
(c) His parents gave it to him.
(d) It wasn't free, he bought it.

2. Who is the first conscientious objector we meet in the book?
(a) Ichiro's father.
(b) Ichiro.
(c) Taro.
(d) Kenji.

3. Who owns the isolated farmhouse?
(a) Emi.
(b) Mike.
(c) Kenji.
(d) No one, it's abandoned.

4. Where did Kenji and Ichiro go to find illegal gambling halls?
(a) Chinatown.
(b) Japantown.
(c) Pike's Peak.
(d) Downtown.

5. What does Ichiro's mother think Japan will look like when they return?
(a) The same as it did 35 years earlier.
(b) She doesn't talk about Japan.
(c) Different since it has been bombed by the U.S.
(d) She doesn't want to move back.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who asks Ichiro to go outside of the gambling hall during his first visit there with Kenji?

2. What has contributed to the tough times in Japan?

3. What happened to Bob Kumasakas?

4. After December 7, 1941 many Americans felt this way about Japanese people.

5. Why isn't Freddie afraid of being caught in the affair with the married woman?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Kenji walk with a cane?

2. Why does Ichiro refuse to fight in the war?

3. What is one of the biggest reasons why Ichiro thinks he should have fought for the U.S. military?

4. Where has Freddie been before he recently returned home five weeks ago?

5. Describe "relocation camps" used in the United States during World War II.

6. Explain why "good" Japanese-Americans were allowed to fight in the U.S. military against Japan?

7. Why does Ichiro say his life has been ruined?

8. Why does Ichiro have to apologize to his father after Ichiro fought with his mother?

9. Why does Bull first ignore, and then make fun of Ichiro?

10. Who yells at Ichiro as he walks past the pool hall in the beginning of the novel and why?

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