Farewell Manzanar Chapter 1-11 Exam
Questions And Answers
/.What is the setting when the story opens? - Answer-✅Long Beach
/.Why did the fishermen return? - Answer-✅Pearl Harbor got bombed
/.What did Papa do the night he heard the news? - Answer-✅Papa burned the flag he
brought from with him from Hiroshima thirty-five years earlier. He also burned a lot of
papers to, documents anything that might suggest he still had some connection with
Japan.
/.Why was the FBI picking up Japanese-American fishermen? - Answer-✅The FBI were
feared that they were in contact with enemy ships.
/.What happened to Papa two weeks later, and how did he react? - Answer-✅He was
taken away but he did not struggle because there was no point.
/.Why was Jeanne afraid on Terminal Island? - Answer-✅She never lived around so
many Oriental
/.What was Order 9066 and how did it affect the Japanese Americans? - Answer-
✅Order 9066 gave the War Department authority to define military areas in the western
states and to exclude from them anyone who might threaten the war effort. It affected
the Japanese Americans because it made them move inland.
/.How does Jeanne describe the public attitudes toward the Japanese in California? -
Answer-✅Her teacher in Boyle Heights would never help her out and she would have
nothing to do with her. Tolerance had turned to distrust and irrational fear.
Discrimination towards Orientals was growing more and more harsh.
/.What happened to the Wakatsuki family? - Answer-✅They were sent to Manzanar by
bus.
, /.Describe the conditions in the barracks. - Answer-✅They were divided into six units,
sixteen by twenty feet, about the size of a living room, with one bare bulb hanging from
the ceiling and an oil stove for heat. They were assigned two of these for the twelve
people in their family; and their family official family "number" was enlarged by 3 digits-
16 plus the number of the barracks. They were issued steel army cots, two brown army
blankets each, and some mattress covers, which her brothers stuffed with straw.
/.How was the War Department helping the people in the camps to get better clothing? -
Answer-✅By giving them military supplies from the first world war like ear muffs, pea-
coat, leggings.
/.What was Jeanne's physical condition at the camp? - Answer-✅She was always sick
with stomach cramps and diarrhea.
/.What was Jeanne's observation of how Mama coped with using the latrines? - Answer-
✅She was extremely humiliated but she endured.
/.How does Jeanne describe the entire situation? - Answer-✅She said it was a slap in
the face and an open insult to the Japanese people.
/.What happened in the mess halls that changed the families and why did this happen? -
Answer-✅They weren't sitting together as a family and they did it to find better food.
/.What work did Mama start doing and why was she doing it? - Answer-✅She was a
dietitian, she was doing this to pay for storage fee.
/.How was the reunion with Papa and how was he dressed and what did Jeanne do? -
Answer-✅The reunion was shocking and papa was pale underweight and looked over
60 years old, used a cane to walk.
/.How does Jeanne, as an adult, see the cane that Papa brought back with him from
Fort Lincoln? - Answer-✅Jeanne sees the cane that Papa brought back with him from
Fort Lincoln as a sad homemade version samurai sword that his great great grandfather
carried with him in the land around Hiroshima.
/.After moving to Hawaii, why did Papa go to Idaho? - Answer-✅A lawyer from Idaho
offered to pay his passage to the states and provide room and board in exchange for
three years' work as houseboy.
Questions And Answers
/.What is the setting when the story opens? - Answer-✅Long Beach
/.Why did the fishermen return? - Answer-✅Pearl Harbor got bombed
/.What did Papa do the night he heard the news? - Answer-✅Papa burned the flag he
brought from with him from Hiroshima thirty-five years earlier. He also burned a lot of
papers to, documents anything that might suggest he still had some connection with
Japan.
/.Why was the FBI picking up Japanese-American fishermen? - Answer-✅The FBI were
feared that they were in contact with enemy ships.
/.What happened to Papa two weeks later, and how did he react? - Answer-✅He was
taken away but he did not struggle because there was no point.
/.Why was Jeanne afraid on Terminal Island? - Answer-✅She never lived around so
many Oriental
/.What was Order 9066 and how did it affect the Japanese Americans? - Answer-
✅Order 9066 gave the War Department authority to define military areas in the western
states and to exclude from them anyone who might threaten the war effort. It affected
the Japanese Americans because it made them move inland.
/.How does Jeanne describe the public attitudes toward the Japanese in California? -
Answer-✅Her teacher in Boyle Heights would never help her out and she would have
nothing to do with her. Tolerance had turned to distrust and irrational fear.
Discrimination towards Orientals was growing more and more harsh.
/.What happened to the Wakatsuki family? - Answer-✅They were sent to Manzanar by
bus.
, /.Describe the conditions in the barracks. - Answer-✅They were divided into six units,
sixteen by twenty feet, about the size of a living room, with one bare bulb hanging from
the ceiling and an oil stove for heat. They were assigned two of these for the twelve
people in their family; and their family official family "number" was enlarged by 3 digits-
16 plus the number of the barracks. They were issued steel army cots, two brown army
blankets each, and some mattress covers, which her brothers stuffed with straw.
/.How was the War Department helping the people in the camps to get better clothing? -
Answer-✅By giving them military supplies from the first world war like ear muffs, pea-
coat, leggings.
/.What was Jeanne's physical condition at the camp? - Answer-✅She was always sick
with stomach cramps and diarrhea.
/.What was Jeanne's observation of how Mama coped with using the latrines? - Answer-
✅She was extremely humiliated but she endured.
/.How does Jeanne describe the entire situation? - Answer-✅She said it was a slap in
the face and an open insult to the Japanese people.
/.What happened in the mess halls that changed the families and why did this happen? -
Answer-✅They weren't sitting together as a family and they did it to find better food.
/.What work did Mama start doing and why was she doing it? - Answer-✅She was a
dietitian, she was doing this to pay for storage fee.
/.How was the reunion with Papa and how was he dressed and what did Jeanne do? -
Answer-✅The reunion was shocking and papa was pale underweight and looked over
60 years old, used a cane to walk.
/.How does Jeanne, as an adult, see the cane that Papa brought back with him from
Fort Lincoln? - Answer-✅Jeanne sees the cane that Papa brought back with him from
Fort Lincoln as a sad homemade version samurai sword that his great great grandfather
carried with him in the land around Hiroshima.
/.After moving to Hawaii, why did Papa go to Idaho? - Answer-✅A lawyer from Idaho
offered to pay his passage to the states and provide room and board in exchange for
three years' work as houseboy.
