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Farewell to Manzanar

Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston

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1. What does Jeanne imagine hatred looks like?

(A) A heavy stone

(B) A dark cloud

(D) A dense fog

2. What aspect of camp life does Mama find particularly hard to tolerate?

(A) The poor food

(B) The lack of warm clothing

(D) Toilets without partitions

3. To what social class in Japan does Papa's family belong?

(A) Farmers

(B) Merchants

(D) Nobility

4. What was the center of Wakatsuki family life before the war?

(A) Samurai sword fights

(B) Papa reading the newspaper aloud

(D) Meals around the wooden table

5. What Japanese word means both “dog” and “collaborator”?

(A) eno

(B) inu

(D) ani

6. What does Kiyo do to stop Papa from striking Mama?

(A) He breaks Mama's china.

(B) He calls the camp police.

(D) He lets Papa strike him instead.

7. What do the Wakatsukis discover when they wake up the first morning in camp?

(A) Their barracks is covered in sand.

(B) Papa has returned.

(D) Woody has prepared breakfast in bed.

8. Of what does the interrogator accuse Papa?

(A) Not giving the names of all of his children

(B) Supplying oil to a Japanese submarine

(D) Bombing Pearl Harbor

9. What is the name of Bill's band?

(A) The Jitterbugs

(B) The Fenced-in Five

(D) The Jive Bombers

10. What does the girl of Jeanne's dream look like?

(A) A dark exotic beauty

(B) A blonde prom queen

(D) Exactly like Jeanne

11. What impresses Woody most about Aunt Toyo?

(A) Her dignity

(B) That she survived the bombing of Hiroshima

(D) Her ability to speak English

12. Why did Papa leave Japan?

(A) He found a cheap ticket

(B) He couldn't find a job in Japan

(D) His family made him leave

13. What position in the high school band is Jeanne excluded from because she is Japanese?

(A) Song girl

(B) Majorette

(D) Cheerleader

14. Where does Jeanne watch her parents make up after a long period of arguments?

(A) In the firebreak

(B) In the car on the way to Long Beach

(D) In the bedroom

15. Where does Jeanne say her life began?

(A) Inglewood, California

(B) Hiroshima, Japan

(D) Manzanar

16. What is the cause of the December Riot?

(A) The beating of Fred Tayama

(B) The arrest of the men who beat up Fred Tayama

(D) The beating of two Japanese men who shot Fred Tayama

17. Whose Supreme Court case results in the closing of the camps?

(A) Gordon Hirabayashi's

(B) Fred Korematsu's

(D) Mitsue Endo's

18. What memory of Papa does Jeanne recall during her visit to Manzanar?

(A) Papa striking Mama with his cane

(B) Papa standing on the deck of his fishing boat

(D) Papa carving a pig at an anniversary party

19. What is the subject of the Japanese anthem, Kimi ga yo?

(A) The glory of the emperor

(B) The endurance of stones

(D) The wetness of moss

20. What is Jeanne's first experience with prejudice after returning from Manzanar?

(A) Her classmates' surprise at her ability to speak English

(B) An old woman spits on her

(D) A schoolyard bully

21. How long did Jeanne stay at Manzanar?

(A) Six months

(B) One year

(D) Three years

22. What does Jeanne hear when she visits the site of the Manzanar camp in 1972?

(A) Voices

(B) Birds

(D) Nothing

23. What photograph appears in the final edition of the Manzanar High School yearbook?

(A) A watchtower with searchlights

(B) An old woman on a path with her dog

(D) A hand squeezing pliers on a barbed-wire fence

24. What does Mama do when the secondhand dealer offers her too little money for her china?

(A) She tries to attack him

(B) She breaks her china

(D) She decides to sell her china for more money in Los Angeles

25. How does Jeanne dress for the carnival queen election assembly?

(A) In a strapless prom dress

(B) In a conservative dress

(D) In military fatigues

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