Quiz  /  Japanese Internment Camps

  • 1. 
    Who were put into the Japanese internment camps?

  • All of the above
  • Citizens of Japan living in the United States
  • Japanese-American immigrants
  • American citizens of Japanese descent

  • 2. 
    What U.S. president ordered the Japanese to be moved to internment camps?

  • Woodrow Wilson
  • Harry Truman
  • Franklin Roosevelt
  • George Bush

  • 3. 
    True or False: Families with children were allowed to stay home and were not forced to move to the camps.

  • FALSE
  • TRUE

  • 4. 
    What type of homes were families given in the camps?

  • They lived in caves
  • Two bedroom wooden homes
  • Brick four-bedroom homes
  • Single room tarpaper shacks

  • 5. 
    Around how many Japanese-Americans were forced to move to internment camps during World War II?

  • 15,000
  • 3,000
  • 120,000
  • 900

  • 6. 
    True or False: Germans and Italians were sent to internment camps, but not at the same scale as the Japanese.

  • TRUE
  • FALSE

  • 7. 
    What happened to people living in the camps when they finally got out?

  • All of the above
  • They had lost their homes
  • They had lost their property
  • They had lost their farms

  • 8. 
    Which of the following is true of the conditions in the camp?

  • None of the above
  • The people were violent and crime was high
  • They were able to come and go as they pleased
  • The children attended well-equipped schools

  • 9. 
    What did the United States do for the camp survivors in 1988?

  • Apologized
  • Paid each of the survivors $20,000
  • The president sent each of them a letter
  • All of the above

  • 10. 
    What president signed the law that gave reparations to the survivors of the camps?

  • Jimmy Carter
  • Ronald Reagan
  • Bill Clinton
  • John F. Kennedy
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