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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. What does the boy imagine doing with his father when his father returns?
(a) Going fishing.
(b) Taking a walk.
(c) Having a conversation.
(d) Listening to the radio.

2. What personal element from his father did the boy save?
(a) Cuff links.
(b) Hair.
(c) Shaving razor.
(d) Clothes brush.

3. What has happened to the family possessions locked away in a room of the house?
(a) They have been stolen.
(b) They are all broken.
(c) They are all there.
(d) Most of the items are there.

4. What is the father's tone in this chapter?
(a) Pleasant.
(b) Hopeful.
(c) Bitter.
(d) Anxious.

5. The children work hard helping their mother ____________________.
(a) plant a garden.
(b) write letters to their father.
(c) sew new clothes.
(d) clean the house.

Short Answer Questions

1. The father sarcastically admits to spying on airfields, naval yards and ________________.

2. What did the boys' mother do on the morning after visiting his father?

3. Why is one family in camp sent back to Japan?

4. Why is the family afraid to sleep in the house?

5. The boy recalls his father promising to ________________________.

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the social environment like for the Japanese-Americans when they return home?

2. What agreement did the mother have with a lawyer and how did he abuse that agreement?

3. What is the father's tone during his confession in this chapter?

4. Who does the father identify himself as being when delivering his confession?

5. Describe what the family did after the father's arrest when they did not know what had happened to him.

6. For whom does the father speak during his confession?

7. What does the boy learn about the details of another boy's father's arrest that is more disturbing than his own father's arrest?

8. What are the physical and psychological states of the camp in the autumn of 1942?

9. Describe how the winter takes its toll on the people in the camps.

10. Why does the mother leave one of the father's suits hanging in the closet?

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