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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
Describe the warfare method, banzai
What is a Japanese method of charging an opponent, yelling banzai.
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
What made the battle at Iwo Jima so difficult?
What is the Japanese had dug tunnels through the island.
200
What was Ned surprised by when he came back from the war?
What is he was not allowed to order a coke in a bar for being Navajo.
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
At bootcamp, Ned and the other Navajo's enjoyed doing this.
What is terrorizing their favorite teacher by fighting in his class and stabbing his tent with bayonets.
300
Two people rushed Ned to the medic when he was shot. Name them.
Who are Smitty and Georgia Boy.
300
What is the name of the camp where Ned went to Code School?
What is Camp Elliott.
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
The Japanese were difficult to fight because they did not follow the rules of modern warfare, what did that mean?
What is they did not surrender or retreat, and any prisoners of war were treated poorly.
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
Name one of the two code talkers who trained Ned and his peers at Code School.
Who is John Benally or Johnny Manuelito.
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
What was the name and significance of the ceremony Mitchell Hosteen performs for Ned AFTER his return.
What is the Enemyway and to help him cope with Post Traumatic Stress.
500
Ned survives the challenges of boarding school and war by doing what?
What is remembering where he came from.
500
The first time he met Georgia Boy, what 3 things did Ned learn from that event?
What is 1. Not all white people are born knowing everything, 2. White men are no different from Navajos, 3. No matter who they are people can always learn from eachother.
500
Ned"s friend Wilfred said the worst part about fighting Saipan was the civilians. What did he mean?
What is civilians believed the U.S. would torture them, so they killed themselves and their children before the soldiers could stop them.
500
What is the name of the sacred Navajo homeland and where is it?
What is Dinetah and Four Corners area (New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Colorado.
500
What is PROPAGANDA? And how was it used?
What is publicity. The Japanese government used it to make the Japanese fear the U.S. and fight to the death.