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Japanese Internment Camps
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Question 1 of 15
1. Question
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- And when my mother finally came out, she had our baby sister in one arm, a huge duffel bag in the other, and (tears) were (streaming) down both her cheeks. I will never be able to (forget) that scene.
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2. Question
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- We were (taken) from our (home) and loaded on to train cars with other (Japanese)-American families.
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3. Question
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- There were (guards) stationed at both ends of each car, as if we were (criminals).
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Question 4 of 15
4. Question
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- We were taken two thirds of the way across the country, rocking on that train for four (days) and three (nights), to the (swamps) of Arkansas.
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5. Question
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- I still remember the barbed wire (fence) that (confined) me.
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- I remember the tall sentry tower with the (machine) (guns) pointed at us.
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Question 7 of 15
7. Question
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- I remember the (searchlight) that followed me when I made the night runs from my barrack to the (latrine). But to five-year-old me, I thought it was kind of (nice) that they'd lit the way for me to (pee).
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Question 8 of 15
8. Question
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- Children are amazingly (adaptable). What would be grotesquely abnormal became my (normality) in the prisoner of (war) camps.
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Question 9 of 15
9. Question
1 pointsListen from 5:32.
- It became (routine) for me to line up three times a day to eat (lousy) food in a noisy mess hall. It became normal for me to go with my father to bathe in a (mass) (shower).
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Question 10 of 15
10. Question
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- My parents decided to go back home to Los Angeles, but Los Angeles was (not) a (welcoming) place.
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Question 11 of 15
11. Question
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- We were (penniless). Everything had been taken from us, and the (hostility) was (intense).
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Question 12 of 15
12. Question
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- Our first home was on Skid Row in the lowest part of our city, living with (derelicts), (drunkards) and crazy people, the (stench) of urine all over, on the street, in the alley, in the hallway.
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Question 13 of 15
13. Question
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- I remember once a drunkard came staggering down, fell down right in front of us, and (threw) (up). My baby sister said, "Mama, let's go back home," because behind (barbed) wires was for us (home).
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Question 14 of 15
14. Question
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- And I was a teenager, and I became very curious about my childhood imprisonment. I had read civics books that told me about the (ideals) of American democracy. All men are created (equal), we have an inalienable (right) to life, (liberty) and the pursuit of happiness, and I couldn't quite make that fit with what I knew to be my childhood imprisonment.
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Question 15 of 15
15. Question
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- He was the one that (suffered) the most under those conditions of imprisonment, and yet he understood American democracy. He told me that our democracy is a people's democracy, and it can be as (great) as the people can be, but it is also as (fallible) as people are. He told me that American democracy is vitally dependent on (good) people who (cherish) the ideals of our system and actively engage in the process of making our democracy work.
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