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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. What did the family live in while at the Tanforan Racetrack?
2. People of which descent are to be relocated?
3. What is an ever-present nuisance for the families?
4. The woman's husband had first been taken to Montana and then to ________________.
5. The mother told her children if asked to say they were _________________, not Japanese.
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does the girl lie about her father to to the man named Ted?
2. What does the soldier advise the girl to stop doing on the train and what does he make the train's occupants do while passing through a town in Nevada?
3. Why are the hardware store owner's actions significant?
4. What does the woman do to the old dog?
5. How do the girl's recollection of the family trip to Yosemite and her father's travels provide some insight into the father's arrest?
6. What does the boy recall about his father being taken away and what his mother did after that night to try to keep the family safe?
7. What does the girl tell a man about her father as they wait in line for the restroom?
8. Describe the living conditions of the mother, the boy and the girl in Utah.
9. How much time has passed since the family's initial move and from whose perspective in Chapter 2 told?
10. What does the boy think he might have done that caused the family to be in such distressing situations?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Create a brief character study of the mother. What does she look like? What are her positive personality traits? What are some of her negative characteristics? What are her hopes and fears? What motivates her--if anything--at this point in time?
Essay Topic 2
Describe the main settings for the novel. Why does Otsuka use the settings she does? What is the time period of the story? How important is the time period to the attitudes and issues of the characters?
Essay Topic 3
Create a brief character study of the girl. What does she look like? What are her positive personality traits? What are some of her negative characteristics? What are her hopes and fears? What motivates her--if anything--at this point in time?
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