1: The author characterizes Woody as A) Having given up his efforts to make to makes of the family's circumstances.
B) Resentful of his and his family's captivity by the American government.
C) Having found his life passion of professional acrobatics.
D) Doing the best he can to fulfill the role of head of the household.

2: The author often uses metaphor to get to her point across. Which of the following passages from her book provides the best example of this?

A) " This was like bloodying the nose of God. "
B) " But these were still unfamiliar visits from a demon we had never seen when we lived in Ocean Park. "
C) " He would save this up and concoct brews in homemade still he kept behind the door..."
D) " During that first summer and fall of sandy congestion and wind-blown the bitterness accumulated... "

3: The author writes Farewell to Manzanar from a 1st person omniscient perspective. Which of the following elements of Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston's book is most consistent with this fact?

A) The book is a first-hand account of her own family's life.
B) The plot is driven by dialogs between brothers and sisters.
C) The setting goes back and forth between the U. S. and Japan.
D) The book is a fictionalized version of historical events.

4: The Waktasuki family is housed in a setting characterized as

A) Row after row of wood-framed barracks, six units each, none with cellars.
B) Two-story brick buildings with dark, often muddy basements.
C) Clusters of large canvas tents set in circles around a central shack.
D) Single unit masonry building with crawl spaces underneath.

5: Context clues such as graphics, pictures, and charts aid comprehension by

A) Drawing the reader's attention to important words and phrases.
B) Using certain synonyms and antonyms.
C) Comparing and contrasting important information.
D) Drawing reader's attention to syntactical clues.

6: Which of the following best describes America's official response to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor?

A) Radio broadcasts urge American citizens to be patient.
B) The U. S. immediately invades Japan.
C) The U. S. president declares the day as "... a date which will live in infamy. "
D) The U. S. appeals to the Japanese for an immediate cease-fire.

7: Which of the following best indicates the reason Papa wants to stay in the camp when he learns that it is soon to close?

A) He is frightened by the prospect of having to return to Japan.
B) He realizes he has absolutely nowhere to go.
C) He wants to stay until Woody comes back from the war.
D) He thinks another war is looming on the horizon.

8: In which of the following passages is the author's use of figurative language most evident?

A) " Mama's first concern, meanwhile, as always, was how to keep money coming in."
B) " To maintain some hold on his self-esteem Papa began to pursue his doomed plan..."
C) " No record of his fishing boats remained. It was another snip of the castrator's scissors, and he never really recovered from this... "
D) " As soon as the front door was closed, Papa went in and flushed it, and when it worked, we all hooted in delight. "

9: This passage most clearly illustrates which literary device?
" As for me, the shapeless dread of that great dark cloud in my imagination gradually receded, soothed away by a sky the same blue it had always been... "

A) Simile
B) Dramatic Irony
C) Imagery
D) External conflict

10: The U. S. government's war relocation centers are greatly

A) Built hastily, lacking many of the essential provisions.
B) Very well built using culturally sensitive architecture.
C) Constructed using forced Japanese labor.
D) Built on former American Indian reservations.