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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. According to Rev. Leslie, the Methodists minister, how long ago did most people leave the Valley?
(a) 20 years.
(b) 15 years.
(c) 22 years.
(d) 18 years.

2. Why is Lt. Jay Svevo late arriving in Lone Pine to work with Schiff?
(a) His grandmother died.
(b) His grandfather died.
(c) His father died.
(d) He got married.

3. What color eyes do members of the Rhodes family have?
(a) Green.
(b) Blue.
(c) Gray.
(d) Brown.

4. When was the river drained of snowmelt that fed the lake?
(a) 1937.
(b) 1920s.
(c) 1925.
(d) 1930s.

5. Where did Schiff learn what aspic is?
(a) Drake Hotel.
(b) A restaurant he ate while he was in law school.
(c) College cafeteria.
(d) Restaurant he ate at during college.

Short Answer Questions

1. What Native Americans told Sunny about her mother's interest in Native American Indian foods?

2. About how many kids are expected at Manzanar?

3. What does Cas drink all day long?

4. How thick were the walls in the first adboe dwelling Rocky entered?

5. In "The First Property of Thirst," what opera does Rocky hear when he turns on the shortwave in the workshop?

Short Essay Questions

1. Within hours of arriving in Lone Pine, what progress does Lt. Jay Svevo make?

2. When the internees arrive, what does Sunny want to say to Schiff, and why does she not say it?

3. What phrase did Sunny's mother believe about food, and who originated the catchphrase?

4. How did Sunny, Tops, Cas, and Stryker create their own patterns of eating?

5. Why did the twins go to Europe and what did they do there?

6. What does Sunny do after learning about the bombing at Pearl Harbor?

7. What does Schiff tell Sunny about his mother's cooking?

8. What letter does Cas have from Stryker that came the day before the bombing of Pearl Harbor?

9. What would have been Schiff's dream job?

10. How did Sunny try to reconstruct her mother?

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