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Vocabulary
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100
The name of the lunch lady at Ranier Elementary
Who is Mrs. Beatty?
100
Henry's father demands that Henry wear it from the first chapter that takes place in 1942.
What is the "I Am Chinese" button?
100
The SPECIFIC location where many of Seattle's Japanese community left their personal items
What is the basement of the Panama Hotel?
100
The consumption, sales and transportation of illegal alcohol during the Prohibition Era.
What is bootlegging?
100
Henry's favorite cold drink that he shares with Marty and (in the last chapter) with Keiko
What is iced green tea with ginger and honey?
200
The first and last name of the bully from Ranier Elementary
Who is Chaz Preston?
200
The grammatically incorrect verb used by Henry's parents to describe Henry's attendance at Ranier Elementary
What is scholarshipping?
200
The name of the internment camp in Idaho where Henry visits Keiko
What is Camp Minidoka?
200
Japan town in Seattle is called by this name in 1942
What is Nihonmachi?
200
Something Henry asked spontaneously but did not regret
What is Henry's marriage proposal to Ethel?
300
The skinny girl who works at the post office in Seattle's Chinatown in 1943 (first and last name)
Who is Ethel Chen?
300
The name of the jazz club where Henry and Keiko see Sheldon Thomas and Oscar Holden perform
What is the Black Elks Club?
300
Henry finds these items in the basement of the Panama Hotel in 1986.
What are Keiko's sketchbook and Henry's "Oscar Holden and the Midnight Blue" record album?
300
The word that means confined to one's bed due to illness
What is bedridden?
300
Keiko and her family relocated there after WWII
What is New York City?
400
Seattle's real and famous African American jazz musician mentioned in Ford's novel
Who is Oscar Holden?
400
The chapter that describes Keiko and Henry's first kiss.
What is "Thirteen (1942)"?
400
The restaurant where Henry works in 1945
What is Min's BBQ?
400
Supplies collected in advance to prepare for something else
What are provisions?
400
One of the main themes in the novel, illustrated by the broken communication between Henry and Marty, and Henry and his own father
What are father-son relationships?
500
The fictional name of the owner of the Panama Hotel in the 1986 chapters of the novel
Who is Ms. Pettison?
500
President Roosevelt signs it into law in 1942 that forces all West Coast people of Japanese ancestry into internment camps.
What is Executive Order 9066?
500
An official Act passed by Congress that did not allow Chinese laborers or their families to immigrate.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882?
500
to burden; to encumber
What is weigh down?
500
Author Jamie Ford describes the novel "Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet" as primarily a _____ _____.
What is a love story?