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Characters
Camp Life
Themes
Setting
Plot
100
This character is arrested and accused of sabotage
Papa / Ko
100
This is the job that Mama works at Manzanar.
Dietician
100

One of the themes of this novel is the destruction of family life under internment. List 1 example of this.

1) The family no longer eats together 2) Woody gets drafted into the army 3) Papa begins drinking and acting abusively (There are many possible answers for this)

100
At the beginning of the story the Wakatsuki family lives in this neighborhood.
What is Ocean Park
100
The story begins with what historical event?
The bombing of Pearl Harbor. December 7, 1941.
200
This character is drafted into the army
Woody
200
Everyone over the age of 17 had to sign this document
Loyalty Oath
200

Another theme in the book is prejudice and stereotyping result in cruelty and injustice. What does the book use to represent this?

Order 9066; the internment camps; the "Yes Yes" "No No" document

200
The first morning the Wakatsuki family wakes up in the camp barracks they find themselves covered with what?
Dust
200
Before Papa joined the family in Camp Manzanar he was at Fort Lincoln. Why did Papa not speak about his experiences at Fort Lincoln?
He was accused of disloyalty and it was shameful
300
When the family first moves into the barracks at Manzanar, this character says they are "living like animals".
Mama
300

How did the December Riot start?

Tayama being beat up; the cook being implicated.

300

A theme in the book is everyone has difficulties understanding their identity. How has Papa's identity changed in the eyes of others after Fort Lincoln?

Papa is accused of being an "inu".

300

What started to happen to families because of the Mess Hall?

They stopped eating together

300
Fred Tayama, a man who is considered a "friend of the administration at camp", was beaten up one night. A young cook is blamed and arrested. What sort of reaction does this cause?
The December Riot
400

This character punched Papa for trying to kill Mama.

Kiyo

400

What Papa was making in the barracks that stunk.

Alcohol; rice wine; apricot cider

400

Papa says, "When your mother and father are having a fight, do you want them to kill each other? Or do you just want them to stop fighting?" What is he using the analogy to describe?

America and Japan

400

What mountain looms over Manzanar?

Mt. Whitney; the Sierras

400

What was another name for the "Yes Yes" "No No" survey?

Loyalty Oath

500

This character worked as a foreman in the reservoir shack.

Kaz

500

What does the word "inu" mean when used in the camps?

Traitor; collaborator; snitch; informant.

500

The racial slurs and insults present in newspapers and propaganda represent what theme?

Prejudice and stereotyping result in cruelty and injustice.

500

What did the barracks and latrines lack in the camp?

Privacy

500

Why did Kiyo ask Papa for forgiveness after punching him?

He wanted to keep order in the family; did not want the family to fall apart.