Chapter 23

Quiz for Document 23-3: Gordon Hirabayashi, Why I Refused to Register for Evacuation (1942)

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Question 1

In his 1942 statement explaining why he would not cooperate with the order to register for evacuation to an internment camp, what source(s) of authority does Gordon Hirabayashi cite to justify his position?A. The Ten Commandments and the New Testament
B. The U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights
C. Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Self Reliance
D. Sigmund Freud’s theories of personality

Question 2

By resisting what he considers to be an unjust law and accepting the consequences of such resistance, Hirabayashi is acting in the spirit and tradition of what New England writer and intellectual?A. Harriet Beecher Stowe
B. Henry David Thoreau
C. Orestes Brownson
D. Thomas Paine

Question 3

While criticizing the spirit and intent of the evacuation order, Hirabayashi is careful to exclude from blame theA. American people in general.
B. government of Imperial Japan.
C. military and civilian officials enforcing the order.
D. President of the United States.