Farewell to Manzanar

Question 1

What is the setting as the story opens?

Answer 1

The wharf in Long Beach, California

Question 2

How did Papa answer the two questions on the Loyalty Oath?

Answer 2

Yes Yes

Question 2

Mama went to work at the camp as

Answer 2

A dietician

Question 2

In the second case involving the camps, the Supreme Court allowed the —- of the Japanese.

Answer 2

Evacuation

Question 3

Why did the fishing boats return?

Answer 3

They had heard on the radios that the Japanese had bombed Pearl Harbor.

Question 4

What comparison did Jeanne use to describe Papa now?

Answer 4

like a freed slave, after the Civil War

Question 5

How old is Jeanne during her stay at Manzanar?

Answer 5

7 years old

Question 6

Jeanne described the situation of being at Manzanar as

Answer 6

A slap in the face

Question 7

How many people went out looking for some of the people that beat Fred Tamaya?

Answer 7

2,000 people

Question 8

What would Jeanne have done if she were told she was free?

Answer 8

Go right back to the camp

Question 9

Fred Tamaya was beaten because

Answer 9

He was being friendly to camp administrators

Question 10

What event occured as a result of Fred’s beating and the arrest of one of the suspects?

Answer 10

A riot

Question 11

What word did Jeanne use to describe the Loyalty Oath?

Answer 11

Grotesque

Question 12

How was Papa’s attack on Mama stopped?

Answer 12

Kiyo punched Papa in the face.

Question 13

Where did Woody go in 1946 and why?

Answer 13

He went to Japan to visit his family’s relatives.

Question 14

On Terminal Island, Jeanne was afraid of

Answer 14

The other Japanese people

Question 15

The war department turned one barracks in the camp into a — factory

Answer 15

Clothing

Question 16

How long did Papa spend in Fort Lincoln?

Answer 16

9 months

Question 17

When Jeanne was in Boyle Heights, it was the first time she ever felt — from a Causcasian

Answer 17

Open hostility

Question 18

Papa was doing several activities to keep himself busy, which of the following were his activities?

Answer 18

Collecting driftwood, painting watercolors, making a rock garden

Question 19

What did the residents do as the months turned into years?

Answer 19

create normalcy and keep their anger under control

Question 20

For Mama, using the — was a great humiliation

Answer 20

Latrines

Question 21

During Papa’s interview, who did he say is his oldest child?

Answer 21

William

Question 22

Which of the following describes the barracks?

Answer 22

Cracks in the walls, crowded, dusty

Question 23

The interrogator asked Papa what he thought of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. What was Papa's response?

Answer 23

Papa said he was sad for both countries; that the bombing and war were things that happened when military men were in control.

Question 24

Order 9066 authorizes the War Department to define military areas in the Western states and to

Answer 24

exclude anyone who might be considered a threat to the war effort

Question 25

By 1944, only about --- Japanese remained in the camps

Answer 25

6,000 people

Question 26

How did Jeanne feel when she thought about people hating her and her family?

Answer 26

Humiliated

Question 27

The leader of the rioters, Joe Kurihara, was born in

Answer 27

California

Question 28

The FBI thought the Japanese fisherman might be

Answer 28

contacting Japanese ships off the west coast

Question 29

At the camp, Jeanne continually had --

Answer 29

Stomach cramps and diarrhea

Question 30

All of the disloyal Japanese were sent to -- camp.

Answer 30

Tule Lake, California

Question 31

Jeanne described one activity as a misuse of the body-what was it?

Answer 31

Ballet

Question 32

Where was the Japanese-American crew when the MPs burst in on them?

Answer 32

in a shack near the reservoir

Question 33

Jeanne said something near the camp symbolized "the turning of our life in camp, from the outrageous to the tolerable." What was it?

Answer 33

Pear trees

Question 34

What caused the camps to close completely?

Answer 34

Hiroshima had just been bombed which meant the US had won the war

Question 35

What happened to Woody?

Answer 35

He was drafted into the US army.

Question 36

Jeanne wanted to do something, but Papa refused to let her. What did she want to do?

Answer 36

Get baptized and confirmed as a Catholic

Question 37

What happened to the Wakatsuki family in the beginning of the book?

Answer 37

They were relocated to the Manzanar camp.

Question 38

Papa and a young woman sang -- to comfort them

Answer 38

Japanese National Anthem

Question 39

What job did Papa have at Fort Lincoln?

Answer 39

Interviewer

Question 40

As an adult, Jeanne compared her father's cane to

Answer 40

Her old grandfather's samurai sword

Question 41

Some of the women in the camp accused Papa of being inu, which means

Answer 41

Collaborator or informer

Question 42

According to Jeanne, which area of the camp caused her family to collapse as an integrated unit?

Answer 42

Mess hall

Question 43

The word manzanar is Spanish. What is the English translation of the word?

Answer 43

Apple Orchard

Question 44

The Supreme Court ended up ruling that the internment camps were

Answer 44

Illegal

Question 45

In the final ruling of the Supreme Court, why did it finally close the camps?

Answer 45

The Supreme Court realized that it was unconstitutional to imprison or detain someone without due process of law. (innocent until proven guilty)

Question 46

What is the name of Bill's Band?

Answer 46

The Jive Bombers

Question 47

Why did Papa leave Japan?

Answer 47

He was ashamed of his family?

Question 48

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

Answer 48

In the firebreak

Question 49

Where does Jeanne say her life began?

Answer 49

Manzanar

Question 50

What is the cause of the December Riot?

Answer 50

The arrest of the man who beat up Fred Tamaya.

Question 51

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

Answer 51

Mitsue Endo's

Question 52

How long did Jeanne stay at Manzanar?

Answer 52

Three years