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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The islanders know that the outcome of this storm
(a) Would be destructive
(b) Was beyond their control
(c) Would be easy to deal with
(d) Would be devastating

2. Hatsue's mother is upset and decides to
(a) Write to Ishmael's parents
(b) Write to Hatsue's father
(c) Write to Kabuo about Hatsue
(d) Confiscate Sumiko's mail

3. As a young child, Hatsue was carefully trained to
(a) Wield a kendo stick
(b) Teach literature
(c) Avoid showing her feelings
(d) Walk like a model

4. The people of Amity Harbor are frightened about the possibility of
(a) Being attacked by the Japanese
(b) The Japanese moving ashore with weapons
(c) The Japanese confiscating their boats
(d) Being attacked from within

5. When Carl, Sr. had a stroke, Etta jumped at the chance to
(a) Clear the strawberries
(b) Put him in a home
(c) Sell the farm
(d) Move to the city

6. The U.S. Relocation Authority announced that Japanese islanders
(a) Were to join the army or go home
(b) Were ordered into internment
(c) Were to forfeit their land
(d) Were enemies of the country

7. Many Japanese workers sent money to Japan to buy
(a) Gold
(b) Wives
(c) Passage home
(d) Sake

8. Hatsue visits the hollow cedar throughout her childhood to
(a) Think
(b) Meet boys
(c) Make her parents worry
(d) Take daytime naps

9. In the time of the Japanese islanders' grandparents, the U.S. census
(a) Ignored the Japanese population
(b) Reported a higher number of Japanese than were there
(c) Gave the Japanese joke names
(d) Renamed all the Japanese with American names

10. Why does Kabuo constantly look inward at himself?
(a) He is proud to be Japanese
(b) He is angry
(c) He is very self-conscious
(d) He is guilty of murder during the war

11. Nels opens up the possibility that the wound on Carl's head could have come from
(a) A drunken stagger
(b) A broken mast
(c) A fall before he went over
(d) Propulsion rather than a blow

12. Etta Heine testifies that her family and the Miyamotos were
(a) Enemies
(b) Childhood friends
(c) Distant friends
(d) Acquaintances

13. Enlisting in the army, for Kabuo, was a matter of
(a) Honor and duty
(b) Traveling to his homeland
(c) Money and opportunity
(d) Getting an education

14. By 1907, the Port Jefferson Mill records referred to the Japanese workers as
(a) "Jap" and a characteristic
(b) Jap staffers
(c) "Jap" and a number
(d) Jap slaves

15. Amity Harbor is
(a) A row of docks
(b) A booming metropolis
(c) San Piedro's only town
(d) The state capitol

Short Answer Questions

1. In the courtroom, the Japanese attendees sat

2. Although Ishmael claims to love her, Hatsue wants to be

3. San Piedro's hills are green with

4. Nels Gundersson gets Horace Whaley to admit that

5. Ole Jurgensen wants to sell his farm now because

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