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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many people in Naomi's family are ever returned their land by the government?
(a) Only Naomi's father is returned his land.
(b) Only Naomi's Obasan is returned her land.
(c) None of Naomi's family is returned their land.
(d) Only Naomi's grandparents are returned their land.

2. What religious ceremony is conducted during the family's goodbye party?
(a) Communion.
(b) A wedding.
(c) Profession of faith.
(d) A baptism.

3. What type of bird do the children see when they climb the bluff in spring?
(a) A jokerbird.
(b) A kingbird.
(c) A princebird.
(d) A queenbird.

4. Which character speaks the words, "She is here. She is not here. She is reaching out to me with a touch deceptive as down, with hands and fingers that wave like grass around my feet and her hair falls and falls and falls from her head like streamers of paper rain"?
(a) Naomi.
(b) Father.
(c) Obasan.
(d) Stephen.

5. How is Grandmother Nakane's body processed after her death?
(a) It is buried in the ground.
(b) It is cremated.
(c) It is buried at sea.
(d) It is mummified.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the internment camp that Grandmother Nakane is relocated to?

2. When the Indian in Rough Lock's story resettles his people, what does he name the town?

3. Who sets Grandmother Nakane's pyre alight?

4. What does Obasan bring Naomi when she comes to visit as she is recovering?

5. What is Naomi concerned might have happened to her mother when she returned to Japan?

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