Q 01/05

Which 1942 presidential directive let the Army remove Japanese Americans from the West Coast?

A) Executive Order 8802

B) Executive Order 6102

C) Executive Order 9066

D) Executive Order 9981

Answer · why

C) Executive Order 9066

Executive Order 9066 never mentioned Japanese Americans by name. Franklin D. Roosevelt signed it about ten weeks after Pearl Harbor, and it was applie...

Q 02/05

Which actor recalled his childhood in wartime camps in the graphic memoir They Called Us Enemy?

A) George Takei

B) James Shigeta

C) Jack Soo

D) Robert Ito

Answer · why

A) George Takei

George Takei and his family first lived in converted horse stables before being sent on to two camps. He later starred in a Broadway musical about the...

Q 03/05

Which actor, later a screen karate mentor, left hospital at 11 to join his interned family at Gila River?

A) Keye Luke

B) James Hong

C) Mako Iwamatsu

D) Pat Morita

Answer · why

D) Pat Morita

Pat Morita spent most of his childhood in hospitals with spinal tuberculosis. After surgery let him walk again, he was taken straight from the ward to...

Q 04/05

Which children's author backed the removal of Japanese Americans in wartime cartoons, then changed his view?

A) E. B. White

B) Dr. Seuss

C) H. A. Rey

D) Ludwig Bemelmans

Answer · why

B) Dr. Seuss

Dr. Seuss drew more than 400 political cartoons for the New York paper PM. He later dedicated Horton Hears a Who! to a Japanese friend.

Q 05/05

Which president signed the Civil Liberties Act, which apologized to surviving internees?

A) Ronald Reagan

B) Jimmy Carter

C) Richard Nixon

D) Bill Clinton

Answer · why

A) Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan at first resisted the bill over its cost, then signed it in August 1988. The first payments went out in 1990, starting with the oldest s...