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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Marxist term does Takaki give the Asian workforce?
(a) The industrial reserve army.
(b) Pravda.
(c) The capitalist navy.
(d) Laissez-faire.

2. How long had Takaki's family been in America?
(a) One generation.
(b) More than three generations.
(c) Ten generations.
(d) Six months.

3. What caused the strike with the Central Pacific Railroad to end?
(a) Central Pacific Railroad went bankrupt.
(b) The Chinese people found a better company to work for.
(c) An agreement was reached.
(d) The Central Pacific Railroad threatened to hire black men instead.

4. What were Asian workers issued that took the place of dollars?
(a) Visas.
(b) Coins.
(c) Stones.
(d) Coupons.

5. What position did Asians hold on the occupational ladder, according to Takaki?
(a) Highest rung.
(b) Asians didn't make it on the ladder.
(c) Lowest rung
(d) Middle rung.

Short Answer Questions

1. What organization supported Chinese immigrants and protested their poor treatment?

2. What was the American Land and Produce Company also known as?

3. What did the blood unions become in 1920?

4. When did Hawaiian planters begin hiring nationalities other then the Chinese?

5. At what grade did education stop for plantation worker's children?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the ultimate goal of Japanese immigrants when coming to America?

2. Why did Vietnamese immigrants arrive in America and where did they live when they first arrived?

3. What ethnic group does Takaki assert is the fastest growing population in the United States and why?

4. How were Chinese immigrants victimized?

5. What name does Takaki give to Asian labor forces and where does the name come from?

6. How did the coupon payment system work and what was wrong with it?

7. What was the Chinese Six Companies?

8. What is partnership farming and who participated?

9. Why did Chinese immigrants open laundromats?

10. What did the McCarran-Watter Act declare?

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