Historical
Cultural
Personal
Values
Vocabulary
100
How the Wakatsuki family stayed together to be bussed to the same internment camp
What is same family number and living in same district
100
The saying that caused Japanese Americans to accept internment.
What is "It cannot be helped. It must be done."
100
Narrator Tim O'Brien said countries should have clear and specific objectives before engaging in this.
What is war?
100
Elroy Berdahl was named a hero because he did this for narrator Tim O'Brien.
What is understanding?
100
the times and events that influence an author's work
What is historical characteristics?
200
In the 1960's America was divided over whether American troops should be involved in this.
What is the Vietnam War?
200
They printed reports of boycott plans, helping the African American community spread the word, for which Dr. King said a debt of grattitude was owed.
What is the white press?
200
How young Jeane Wakatsuki viewed the family's bus trip to Manzanar.
What is an adventure?
200
The "inheritance" given to Elie by his father when he did not pass the first selection.
What is knife and spoon?
200
to seem endless
What is interminable?
300
This event sparked the boycott of Montgomery city buses by the African American community.
What is the arrest of Rosa Parks?
300
This group of people chose to protest against an unjust system to gain freedom.
Who are African Americans?
300
What friends Elie, Yossi, and Tibi offered each other during the selection process.
What is encouragement?
300
Why the Japanese women used cardboard boxes in the latrines.
What is personal privacy?
300
Ideas and customs passed down through generations?
What is heritage?
400
These were characterized by little food, hard labor, inhuman conditions, movements controlled by bells during World War II.
What is concentration camps?
400
Examples are remaking oversized Army surplus clothes and using tin can lids to cover holes in the barrack walls.
What is resourcefulness?
400
Stayed home to answer phones and relay messages about the boycott because she had a new baby daughter.
Who is Mrs. Coretta Scott King?
400
Dr. King, as president, showed he valued Christian ideals, nonviolence, freedom, and justice as he led this movement in the late '50's.
What is the Civil Rights movement?
400
a form of protest against an unfair business practice
What is boycott?
500
The process by which SS doctors determined who was no longer able to work and fit for the gas chambers.
What is selection?
500
As a result of this, American soldiers were forced to fight in Vietnam.
What is the draft?
500
Wiesel did this to keep the selection doctor from seeing his number.
What is running fast?
500
Why O'Brien said he didn't tell his story for 20 years.
What is embarrassment?
500
Someone's personal thoughts or beliefs
What is opinion?
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