Betrayed by America

The section "Trouble on the Way"

• explains why Japanese Americans were sent to internment camps.

• helps readers understand what led to the attack on Pearl Harbor.

• provides information about Bill's personality.

• shows the role that the attack on Pearl Harbor played in the internment of Japanese Americans.

On page 6, Kristin Lewis writes, "The bombing of Pearl Harbor fanned the flames of prejudice." Context clues reveal that to "fan the flames" is to

• make something more intense.

• make efforts to improve a difficult situation.

• burn something up until it's gone.

• make something better.

The author supports the idea that Japanese Americans were viewed with suspicion after Pearl Harbor in all of the following ways EXCEPT

• by describing the rumors that were spread about Japanese Americans after Pearl Harbor.

• by quoting a newspaper headline about Japanese Americans.

• by explaining that President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066.

• by referring to information from a military report.

On page 8, Lewis writes that Heart Mountain "looked nothing like the name would suggest." She means that the camp

• was usually called by a different name.

• was not in the shape of a heart.

• was not a warm and inviting place.

• was not in the mountains.

On page 8, Lewis likely includes the detail about mothers stitching curtains for the barracks to

• explain what the role of women was in the camps.

• support the idea that the barracks were pleasant places to live.

• show that the residents of the camps tried to make the best of their situations.

• describe the kinds of jobs detainees were given.

Which would be another good title for the article?

• "Why World War II Happened"

• "Locked Up Unfairly"

• "Japanese Americans Today"

• "Return to Heart Mountain"

Based on the article, how many Japanese Americans were forced into internment camps?

• 1,200

• 2,300

• 120,000

• 127,000

Which detail shows that the people in the camps tried to make the best of a bad thing?

• "Many wore their best clothes--mothers in dresses, fathers in suits."

• "He loved eating tacos and playing baseball after school with his friends."

• "They had worked hard to create a good life in their new country."

• "Fathers made furniture from scraps of wood."

Which means the same as "remote" in the sentence "The camps were all located in remote areas"?

• far away and hard to get to

• worthy of respect

• dusty, dirty, and crowded

• in the middle of a city

During World War II, thousands were not in internment camps. What were they doing instead?

• visiting Japan

• fighting as soldiers for the U.S.

• going to college

• hiding so they wouldn't be put into camps