Chapter 1
1. What is surprising about the morning at the wharf?
2. What does Jeanne's father burn?
3. What does the FBI find in many of the houses they search?
4. How long is it between the time that Jeanne's father is arrested and the next time that they see him?
5. Of what is Jeanne's father accused?
Chapter 2
6. Why does the Navy make the Japanese families move away from Terminal Island?
7. What item does Jeanne's mother refuse to sell, deciding instead to break it?
8. Why does Mama pack heavy coats for them?
9. What surrounds the camp?
10. How many people does the family fit into two small units?
Chapter 3
11. What covers the family when they wake up in their first morning at the camp?
12. What does Woody have Ray and Kiyo do to improve the barracks?
13. Who shows his good humor and willingness to be responsible to improve things as much as possible for the family, including keeping Mama’s spirits up?
14. Which word best describes the barracks?
15. Mama thinks that the condition of the barracks is no better than what ______would sleep in.
Chapter 4
16. The War Department issues surplus clothing from which war?
17. Heavy doses of what leave Jeanne sick?
18. What do the women use for privacy in the camps?
19. Many people in the camp become sick because of what reason?
20. What is the name given to a common illness in the camp?
Chapter 5
21. What tears families apart at Manzanar?
22. Who has meals brought to him or her instead of eating in the mess hall?
23. What is Mama's career?
24. What is the first thing the family notices about Papa when he returns?
25. Who is the only person to run to Papa when the family sees him?
Chapter 6
26. For what career does Papa first begin to prepare?
27. Why does Papa leave Japan?
28. What did Mama’s family think of Papa?
29. At Fort Lincoln, what did Papa work as?
30. What happens to Papa at Fort Lincoln?
Chapter 7
31. What is contained in the oil cans that Papa has with him?
32. What analogy does Papa use to explain to the interviewer why he won’t choose sides?
33. Who does Papa think will win the war?
34. What does the interviewer ask Papa?
35. Why hasn't Papa contacted his family in Japan?
Chapter 8
36. What makes the barracks feel crowded to the author?
37. What does Papa do to Mama?
38. What does Papa constantly demand of Mama?
39. What does "Inu" meanin Japanese and what does it mean when used by the Japanese in the camp?
40. Who punches Papa in the nose?
Chapter 9
41. What occurs exactly one year after Pearl Harbor?
42. Why were the internees upset?
43. What do the internees do all night long until noon the next day?
44. What does the mob cry out before the MPs use tear gas?
Chapter 10
45. Who oversees the reservoir crew?
46. What is the reservoir crew given as protection from rioters?
47. What does the reservoir crew fear most?
48. What does the sergeant agree to do?
Chapter 11
49. The government requires that everyone seventeen or older signs what type of document?
50. People can leave the camps and move inland if they do what?
51. What song does Papa sing that makes him cry?
52. What do the anti-American Japanese in the camp want?
Chapter 12
53. What does Manzanar mean in Spanish?
54. Jeanne's family moves closer to what in the camp?
55. What hobby does Papa begin to do?
56. What does Papa sketch?
Chapter 13
57. Jeanne goes to Manzanar when she is in what grade?
58. At what lessons does Jeanne succeed?
59. What hobby does Jeanne try that she comes to believe is a horrible abuse of the body?
60. Why can't Jeanne participate in the odori lessons?
61. What does Jeanne explore that her father is against?
Chapter 14
62. Who does Jeanne go to more and more when she needs comfort?
63. What did Woody do to help their oldest sister?
64. Jeanne and her father are in the firebreak waiting for what?
65. What does our author learn from watching her mother and father in the fire break?
66. What does Mama announce to Papa and Jeanne?
Chapter 15
67. By the end of 1944, about how many people are left at Manzanar?
68. Who is the first of the family to leave?
69. Where does Woody go?
70. What is the 442nd Combat Regiment?
71. What is Jeanne reminded of when Woody leaves?
Chapter 16
72. In 1942, the Supreme Court upholds the evacuation of Japanese-Americans due to what reason?
73. How does Jeanne's family react to the news that the camps are closing?
74. To what state does most of the family move?
75. What does Jeanne fear most as the camps close?
76. Who needs to be escorted to the train station to protect them from the crowds?
Chapter 17
77. What ends all hope for staying at Manzanar?
78. What worries Papa after the bombing of Hiroshima?
79. Why is there a housing shortage on the West Coast?
80. What does Papa want to build?
Chapter 18
81. What does Woody bring as a gift to his father's family?
82. Why did the family erect a gravestone with Papa's name on it?
83. How many of Papa's family died in the bombing of Hiroshima?
84. Who tells Woody that he looks like his father?
85. What does the experience of visiting the family show Woody?
Chapter 19
86. How does Papa decide that the family is going to travel back to Los Angeles?
87. What happens to all of Mama’s prized possessions?
88. What reaction does Jeanne and her family get from most of the others?
89. Where does Mama go to work?
Chapter 20
90. What grade does Jeanne enter in Los Angeles?
91. What two activities does Jeanne find she is accepted?
92. Which organization does Jeanne try to join but is refused membership?
93. With whom does Jeanne make friends?
Chapter 21
94. What would Jeanne be horrified about if anyone asked her out on a date?
95. Papa would be angry if Jeanne dated ______.
96. What is Jeanne named during her senior year?
Chapter 22
97. Jeanne becomes the first person in her family to ______.
98. Who did Jeanne meet that prompted her to talk about her Manzanar experience?
99. How long after she leaves does Jeanne return to Manzanar?
100. When Jeanne goes to Manzanar, she finds everything ______.