Farewell to Manzanar
English, History
9th - 10th Grade
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This quiz focuses on the memoir "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston, covering the Japanese American internment experience during World War II. The questions assess ninth and tenth grade students' reading comprehension and knowledge of specific details from the text, including character names, historical context, cultural elements, and plot events. Students need strong literal comprehension skills to recall factual information such as the name of the father's boat, the agency that arrested him, and specific living conditions at the Manzanar internment camp. The quiz also requires students to understand historical context, particularly the attack on Pearl Harbor and its connection to Executive Order 9066, as well as cultural literacy including Japanese phrases and their meanings. Students must demonstrate their ability to analyze character motivations, such as understanding why the narrator's mother destroyed her china dishes as an expression of frustration and anger about their forced relocation. This quiz was created by a classroom teacher who designed it for students studying ninth and tenth grade English literature. The assessment serves multiple instructional purposes, functioning effectively as a reading check to ensure students have completed the assigned chapters, a review tool before class discussions about the historical and personal impact of internment, or a formative assessment to gauge comprehension before deeper analytical work. Teachers can use this quiz as a warm-up activity to activate prior knowledge before exploring themes of identity, discrimination, and resilience, or assign it as homework to reinforce key details from the reading. The factual recall questions align with Common Core State Standards RL.9-10.1, which requires students to cite strong textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly, and RL.9-10.7, which focuses on analyzing the representation of a subject in different artistic mediums. This type of comprehensive detail assessment prepares students for more sophisticated literary analysis and historical contextualization of this important American memoir.
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The author, Jeanne Wakatsuki, was born in Inglewood, CA.
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CCSS.RL.8.6
CCSS.RI. 9-10.6
CCSS.RI.8.6
CCSS.RI.8.9
CCSS.RL.9-10.6
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The narrator's Papa had a boat called what?
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CCSS.RI.11-12.10
CCSS.RI.8.10
CCSS.RI.9-10.10
CCSS.RL.8.10
CCSS.RL.9-10.10
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Who came to arrest the narrator's father?
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CCSS.RL.8.6
CCSS.RL.5.6
CCSS.RL.6.6
CCSS.RL.7.6
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
This is another way to say "internment camp."
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CCSS.RI.11-12.5
CCSS.RI.6.5
CCSS.RI.7.5
CCSS.RI.8.5
CCSS.RI.9-10.5
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The reason that the narrator's mother broke her expensive china dishes was probably related to what?
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CCSS.RL.9-10.2
CCSS.RI. 9-10.1
CCSS.RI.11-12.1
CCSS.RI.8.1
CCSS.RL.8.1
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What is Pearl Harbor?
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CCSS.RI.11-12.5
CCSS.RI.6.5
CCSS.RI.7.5
CCSS.RI.8.5
CCSS.RI.9-10.5
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The narrator did not see her father until when?
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CCSS.RL.8.6
CCSS.RL.5.6
CCSS.RL.6.6
CCSS.RL.7.6
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