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Welcome to the 2023-2024 School Year!
Prelude
How old is the narrator (Alex) when he sees Charlie beyond the fence at Manzanar? What does he think she is?
Chapter 1
How do Alex and Charlie become pen pals? How old are they?
What is a “nisei?”
What does Alex dream of becoming? What does he send Charlie?
Chapter 2
Who does Alex attend church service with?
Why is Alex nervous?
Who is the star of the football team?
What military base has the Japanese Empire attacked?
What does the man do to Alex and Frank at the red light?
Chapter 3
10. What is the name of Alex’s homeroom teacher? How does he feel about the Japanese?
11. What happens to Alex’s locker
12. Who does Alex walk home from school with?
Chapter 4
13. How many days after the attack on Pearl Harbor does Alex write to Charlie?
14. What has Mr. Hanford forbidden Alex from doing? How does Alex react?
15. What does Frank say when Alex asks him what he thinks will happen after the attacks?
16. What does Frank say when Alex asks him if it is weird that he has feelings for his pen pal?
Chapter 5
17. Who does Alex find in the kitchen the next morning?
18. What bad memory does Alex have about his father?
19. Who takes Mr. Maki away?
Chapter 6
20. Who does Charlie say is her only friend?
21. What does Alex tell Charlie are the only things he needs in life?
Chapter 7
22. How many FBI agents search the Maki’s home?
23. What does Alex ask the FBI agents?
24. Who tries to chase down and stop the agents?
Chapter 8
25. What does Alex admit to Charlie that he lies to his father about in his letters?
26. Why does Alex like Wonder Woman comics?
27. What city does Charlie say here parents are arguing about whether or not to move out
28. What does Alex say happened to him in biology class?
29. Who is the political cartoon by that enrages Frank?
Chapter 9
30. What is Alex’s mother holding on to while she sleeps?
31. Why did Mrs. Maki say she would let Mr. Maki touch her in the night?
Chapter 10
32. Why does Charlie say she is being discriminated against more and more?
33. What does Alex send Charlie a drawing of?
Chapter 11
34. What do the flyers that Alex sees around town say?
35. Why can’t Alex and Frank attend the school dance?
36. What is the name of Alex’s dog?
Chapter 12
37. Why is Alex worried about Frank’s football game? What ends up happening to Frank?
38. Who called the cops on Frank for breaking curfew?
39. What does Frank forbid Alex from doing?
Chapter 13
40. What does Charlie say she is tired of feeling like?
41. What does Charlie whistle loudly during?
42. What has Charlie heard of and wants to join?
43. What does Alex send Charlie a picture of?
Chapter 14
44. Where do Alex, Frank, and Mrs. Maki pack their language?
45. What does Mrs. Maki do when she is offered one dollar for the family’s expensive China dinnerware?
Chapter 15
46. What is the name of the girl that Alex runs into when he returns to the church to get his scarf?
47. Who gave Alex the fashionable shoes he puts on years ago?
48. Who arrives at the dance to take Alex home?
49. Who does Alex daydream about showing up at his house?
Chapter 16
50. What does Alex see for the last time?
51. What is the last name of the family that the military vehicle stops to pick up?
52. What is Frank given by his teammates?
53. Who apologizes and says the nation will never live down the shame of this injustice?
Chapter 17
54. What are the evacuees loaded onto in Seattle?
55. Who does Charlie say are the Eclaireurs Israelites?
56. What does Charlie say that she wishes her and Alex could do together?
57. How many French Jews are on the first train that arrives at the Auschwitz concentration camp?
Chapter 18
58. Where are the Sierra Nevada Mountains located?
59. What block and barrack is Alex assigned to?
60. What do the evacuees have to use to make mattresses?
Chapter 19
61. In the morning, what is everyone covered in?
62. What do Alex and Frank do to help the older immigrants?
Chapter 20
63. What are some of the cities that Japanese people are continuously being brought in from?
Chapter 21
64. Who does Alex barely recognize anymore?
65. What state is Crystal City Internment Camp located in?
Chapter 22
66. What does the letter from Crystal City say about the petition for Mr. Maki’s release?
67. Who does Alex say that he will lie to about the petition?
68. Who tells Alex to shut up and grow up?
Chapter 23
69. Who does Alex finally receive a letter from? What is the date on the letter?
70. What do all Jews in Paris have to wear now?
71. Who does Alex see in a dream that night?
Chapter 24
72. What does Alex find a job listing for?
73. What does Alex need money for?
74. Where has Mrs. Maki been working?
75. Who is Mrs. Maki always asking about the whereabouts of?
Chapter 25
76. What is the date on Charlie’s letter?
77. Where is Charlie’s family fleeing to?
78. What line in Charlie’s letter terrifies Alex?
Chapter 26
79. What is the name of the Assistant Project Director of Manzanar? What do Frank and Harry Ueno think he is doing? What is this causing to happen?
80. Who does Alex tell Frank his rebellious actions are destroying?
81. Who says, "Oh, I like your tough-guy act. Your imaginary French girlfriend would be so impressed?"
82. What does Alex accuse Frank of being? Who do these people sympathize with?
Chapter 27
83. Who does Alex secretly observe while working in the cafeteria daily?
Chapter 28
84. On what date were Charlie's parents taken away in the middle of packing?
85. How many days do Charlie and her parents have to wait in the stifling heat without food, water, or bathrooms?
86. When is Charlie's second letter dated?
87. What is the name of the university that Charlie dreams about attending?
88. What does Charlie make out of some discarded poems and candles that she finds on a bench?
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