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What is a main idea of the excerpt?

Letters preserve information about the living conditions of Japanese Americans who are interned at relocation camps

Which inference can be best made about the people that arrive at Poston Relocation Center?

They feel disoriented

What is the meaning of dashed as it is used in the text from paragraph 5 of the excerpt? It was so hot on the bus that they had opened the windows, only to be covered by powdery white dust the consistency of flour. When they stepped off the buses, friends didn't recognize one another. When they arrived in the torrid heat of summer, at barracks that were not complete, their hopes that Poston would be an improvement over Santa Anita were dashed. It was ten degrees hotter than the Libyan desert."

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Which sentence from the excerpt most strongly supports the answer to Question 7?

"After twenty hours on a train and another hour on a hot, dusty bus, the Nikkei arrived at the Poston Relocation Center."

Which sentence from the excerpt shows how the Nikkei most likely felt about the relocation center?

"It seemed as if they had reached the ends of the earth."

Which sentence from the excerpt most strongly supports the answer to question 5?

"Upon my arrival at the Poston Relocation Center, I stood bewildered, glaring at the hot dusty desert, wondering how we could survive."

Which technique does the author use to support the experience of the Nikkei?

A quote from a sociologist about the reaction of the Nikkei to the living areas

Which inference can be made about the trip the Nikkei took to the relocation center?

The trip was extensive and exhausting


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