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100
Who took Ned to the Mission School the first day?
Who is Ned's Uncle
100
Who were the Kamikazi?
Who are Japanese pilots who accepted suicide missions to bomb U.S. ships
100

Where was Ned sent on "vacation" after he was shot?  

Hawaii

100
What ceremony did Ned go through before he left for the Marines?
What is a Blessingway
100
What was ironic about finding American food stored on Iwo Jima?
What is the Japanese were fighting America, but stole the food the American's had sent to aide Japan years before.
200
What happens to the students when they speak in Navajo?
What is they get their mouths washed out with soap.
200
This individual died and came back to life.
Who is Charlie Begay.
200
Name one of the two Japanese cities where the US dropped Atomic Bombs.

 Hiroshima and Nagasaki

200

What hurtful situation did Ned experience after he returned home from the war?

He was thrown out a bar that "didn't serve Indians" when he attempted to order a Coke.  

200
How is Ned's passage through Fort Defiance ironic?
He made the same passage through Fort Defiance and Wingate that his ancestors made, except his journey is willingly, his ancestors were forced.
300

Why did Ned's family send him to the mission school?

So that he could learn English because American laws were written in English and the Navajo needed to know their rights and be able to depend themselves.  

300
Two people rushed Ned to the medic when he was shot. Name them.
Who are Smitty and Georgia Boy.
300
Ned doesn't have much to say about the battles on this island, possibly due to PTSD.  He says this is where the bloodiest battle of his WWII experience took place. The U.S. lost 12,000 American troops, the Japanese lost 110,000 men and 80,000 local civilians were also killed here.

What is Okinawa?  

300
Ned and the other Navajos in his unit acquired water in the desert through what method?
What is cutting open the prickly pear cactus when the commander was not looking.
300

What did Ned do with his life, once his physical and emotional wounds began to heal? 

He used the G.I. bill to go to college and became a teacher.  

400
What did "Tradition is the Enemy of Progress" mean to the teachers at the school?
What is tradition/speaking Navajo will not allow you to learn new things, tradition will hold you back.
400

What US president died during WWII?

Who is FDR or Franklin Delano Roosevelt?  

400
After the U.S. captured Iwo Jima, they erected a flag where?
What is Mt. Suribachi
400
Ned says the Navajos adjusted to Marine life much easier than other men, why?
What is the Navajos were used to being yelled at, hiking long distances and living outside.
400

Hosteen Mitchell preformed an "Enemy Way" ceremony for Ned AFTER he returned from war.  What was the purpose of that ceremony?

To help him cope with PTSD. 

500

Why did Ned decide that he wanted to be a teacher?

He wanted to be a good teacher/role model for other Indians and he vowed to hold his Indian students to a high standard.  

500
What Pima Indian helped raise the flag on Iwo Jima?  

Who was Ira Hayes?

500
On which Island was little 7-year-old Johnny's family murdered by the Japanese?  

What is Guam?

500

Ned could relate to the Chamorros people who had been run out of their homes on Guam when Japan invaded because it reminded him on a similar experience that his ancestors endured.  What was that experience called?  

The Long Walk

500

How was the GI bill unfair to Ned and other Indians who wanted to use it to build a home?  

The GI bill could not be used to build a home on an Indian reservation which is where Ned's sacred homeland was and where he wanted to live.  

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