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Farewell to Manzanar ch 5 & 6

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Review: Mrs. Wakatsuki breaks her prized dishes for all of the following reasons EXCEPT to

a)

show how angry she is at the dealer.

b)

express frustration about the family's situation.

c)

destroy a reminder of the happier times of the past.

d)

keep the dealer from making a huge and unfair profit.

2.
According to Jeanne, which area of the camp caused her family to collapse?
a)
school
b)
mess hall
c)
barracks
d)
Catholic church
3.

Mama went to work at the camp as ____.

a)

a dietician

b)

a secretary

c)

an interpreter

d)

a seamstress

4.
True or False: When Jeanne first saw her father as he got off the bus at the camp, she cried.
a)
true 
b)
false
5.

Read page 43, checkoff the items about Papa that are true.

a)

he was the oldest son

b)

he was born in 1887

c)

he dropped out of military school

d)

he moved to China

6.

On page 45-46, Papa meets a lawyer from Idaho who hires him to work for him as a valet, cook, chauffeur, mechanic, and handyman. The man encourages Papa to go to university to study ______________

a)

medicine

b)

nutrition

c)

law

d)

marine biology

7.

Read page 48 to answer this question.

How did Mama and Papa get married?

a)

They ran away together.

b)

They got married in a church.

c)

Their parents married them.

d)

They were never actually married.

8.

At Mama and Papa's 25th anniversary party (page 52), Papa enjoyed showing off his skill doing this.

a)

shucking an oyster

b)

beheading a chicken

c)

carving a pig

d)

training a dog

9.

Bottom of page 52, top of 53:

That's how I remember him before he disappeared. He was not a great man. He wasn't even a very successful man. He was a ____________, a braggart, and a tyrant. ...he could work well at any task he turned his hand to: he could raise vegetables, sail a boat, _____________ a case in small claims court, sing Japanese poems, make false teeth, carve a pig.

(a)  

10.

Page 53- Papa was taken to Ft. Lincoln Internment Camp, North Dakota to be interviewed by the FBi. Later he helped the government by

a)

fixing teeth for the other Isseis.

b)

translating interviews of other Issei since he could speak both English and Japanese.

c)

reading newspapers to the Isseis.

d)

volunteering to fight against Japan.