Farewell to Manzanar questions – Flashcards
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What is the setting as the story opens?
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The wharf in long beach, Ca in 1941
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Why did the fishing boats return?
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They had heard on the radios that the Japanese had bombed Pearl Harbor
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The FBI thought the Japanese fisherman might be
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Contacting Japanese ships off the west coast
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On Terminal Island, Jeanne was afraid of
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The other Japanese people
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Order 9066 authorizes the War Department to define military areas in the western states and to
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Exclude anyone who might be considered a threat to the war effort
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When Jeanne was in Boyle Heights, it was the first time she ever felt______ from a Caucasion.
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Open hostility
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What happened to the Wakatsuki family?
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They were relocated to the Manzanar camp
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Which of the following describes the barracks?
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Cracks in the walls, crowded, dusty
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The war department turned one barracks in the camp into a___Factory
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Clothing
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At the camp, Jeanne continually had___
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Stomach cramps and diarrhea
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For Mama the Using the ____was a great humiliation.
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Latrines
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Jeanne described the situation of being at Manzanar as____
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A slap in the face
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According to Jeanne, which area of the camp caused her family to collapse as an integrated unit?
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Mess hall
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Mama went to work at the camp as
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A dietician
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How old is Jeanne at this part of the story?
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7
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As an adult, Jeanne compared her father's cane to
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A samurai sword
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What job did Papa have at Fort Lincoln?
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Interviewer
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The interrogator asked Papa what he thought of the Japanese attack on Pearl habor. What was Papa's response?
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Papa said he was sad for both countries; that the bombing and war were things that happened when military men were in control.
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Some of the women in the camp accused Papa of being inu, which means
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Collaborator or informer
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How was Papa's attack on Mama stopped?
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Kiyo punched Papa in the face.
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Fred Tayama was beaten because
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was friendly with camp administrators
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What event occurred as a result of Freds beating and the arrest of one of the suspects?
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A riot
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Where was the Japanese-American crew when the MPs burst in on them?
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in a shack near the reservoir
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What word did Jeanne use to describe the Loyalty Oath?
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grotesque
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How did Papa answer the two questions on the Loyalty Oath?
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YES YES
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How long did Papa spend in Fort Lincoln?
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9 months
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During Papa's interview, who did he say is his oldest child?
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William
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The leader of the rioters, Joe Kurihara, was born in
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California
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How many people went out looking for some of the people that beat Fred Tayama?
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2,000
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All of the disloyal Japanese were sent to ____ camp.
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Tule Lake, California
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Papa and a young woman sang ____ to comfort them
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Japanese National Anthem
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Papa was doing several activities to keep himself busy. Which of the following were his activities?
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collecting driftwood, painting watercolors, making a rock garden
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Jeanne said something near the camp symbolized "the turning of our life in camp, from the outrageous to the tolerable." What was it?
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pear trees
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The word manzanar is Spanish. What is the English translation of the word?
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apple orchard
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What would have Jeanne done if she were told she was free?
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go right back to the camp
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What did the residents do as the months turned into years?
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create normalcy and keep their anger under control
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Jeanne described one activity as a misuse of the body-what was it?
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ballet
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Jeanne wanted to do something, but Papa refused to let her. What did she want to do?
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get baptized and confirmed as a Catholic
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What happened to Woody?
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he was drafted into the US army
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In the second case involving the camps, the Supreme Court allowed the _____ of the Japanese.
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Evacuation
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How did Jeanne feel when she thought about people hating her and her family?
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humiliated
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What comparison did Jeanne use to describe Papa now?
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like a freed slave, after the Civil War.
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What caused the camps to close completely?
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the US won the war
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Where did Woody go in 1946 and why?
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He went to Japan to visit his father's relatives
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By 1944, only about _____ Japanese remained in the camps.
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6,000
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The Supreme Court ended up ruling that the internment camps were:
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illegal
