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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many days are the Itos given to pack?

2. What does Fred like to sleep with in Chapter III?

3. Who is Keiko staying with since her parents have been taken?

4. When are Mas, Frankie, and Twitch scheduled to leave for basic training?

5. How long after Bette submits her resettlement paperwork does she get her indefinite leave clearance?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where do Shig and his friends go to skip school in Chapter II?

2. Why does Frankie decide to sign up for the new combat unit?

3. Who is Stan writing in Chapter VI and why?

4. What happens when Minnow draws?

5. Who comforts Hiromi when she sees Joe kissing another girl?

6. What does Frankie remember about going to a horse track with his father when he was seven?

7. Why do the Katsumotos and others have to sell their belongings?

8. What does Bette tell Yuki about how she is doing in a postcard postmarked October 15, 1943?

9. What is life like at Topaz once the No-Nos leave?

10. In Chapter III, what does Yum-yum begin to do at night?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Shig’s mother tells him that anger and fighting change nothing. What does Shig’s mother tell him when he asks what he should do instead of fighting and being angry? What is gaman? How is gaman supposed to help a person in difficult times?

Essay Topic 2

Yum-yum has a younger brother named Fred. How and why does Yum-yum have to care for her brother? How does Yum-yum have to take the role of a parent? How does that affect and change the relationship between Yum-yum and her brother?

Essay Topic 3

What a reader knows about events and characters is determined by the point of view in a book. What is the point of view in the book? Where does the author change the point of view? How does the point of view influence what readers know about events and people?

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