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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On the first afternoon of the trial, the Japanese driver of the disabled school bus
(a) Broke up a snowball fight
(b) Helped with a chimney fire
(c) Helped a boy with a broken ankle
(d) Walked the students to their homes

2. Ishmael's illness in South Carolina allowed him to
(a) Recuperate from his emotional pain
(b) Suffer the way he wanted to
(c) Gather strength for the war
(d) Rest before he saw combat

3. Ole and Leisel Jurgensen had two visitors on the same day--September 7. They were
(a) Etta Heine and Carl Heine, Sr.
(b) Carl Heine, Sr. and Kabuo Miyamoto
(c) Kabuo Miyamoto and Carl Heine, Jr.
(d) Susan Marie Heine and Etta Heine

4. What does Hatsue do when Ishmael proposes marriage?
(a) Runs away
(b) Goes silent
(c) Cries
(d) Screams

5. Upon seeing Carl Heine's corpse, Abel Martinson
(a) Vomited
(b) Cried
(c) Ran
(d) Screamed

6. Why did Kabuo's father bury the swords and other belongings in the strawberry field?
(a) He wanted to bury everything from his past
(b) He wanted to claim the land for his own
(c) He knew they would be taken from him because of the war
(d) He thought he could preserve his personal history

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

8. Carl Heine is described as being
(a) Very gregarious
(b) Tidy and respectable
(c) Meticulously clean
(d) A careless individual

9. What does the red foam from Carl's mouth indicate?
(a) He had air in his lungs when he hit the water
(b) He had respiratory failure
(c) He was dead before he hit the water
(d) He suffocated and drowned

10. Ole Jurgensen wants to sell his farm now because
(a) He wants to live in the city
(b) He has had a stroke
(c) His interest in farming has waned
(d) He wants to move on to better things

11. When Carl Heine's boat was found,
(a) The batteries were dead
(b) It was full of water
(c) All the lights were on
(d) It would not start

12. Ishmael Chambers returned from the war
(a) With brain injuries
(b) Missing an arm
(c) Unscathed
(d) Unable to walk

13. Ishmael's job as a marine was that of
(a) A medic
(b) A radioman
(c) A cargo handler
(d) A lieutenant

14. The darkness in Carl Heine's personality, as well as in Horace Whaley's is a result of
(a) Mistrust and suspicion
(b) Fighting in World War II
(c) Fishing and eking out a living
(d) Working on the island since childhood

15. Perhaps Kabuo's worst lingering memory of the war was
(a) Storming the beach
(b) The German atrocities
(c) Shooting a child
(d) His best friend's death

Short Answer Questions

1. The U.S. Relocation Authority announced that Japanese islanders

2. The morning her family leaves for the internment camps, Fujiko Imada avoids Ilse Severense because

3. When Carl, Sr. had a stroke, Etta jumped at the chance to

4. Nels opens up the possibility that the wound on Carl's head could have come from

5. Ishmael, as a boy, tells Hatsue that the oceans

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