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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. A group of influential businessmen known as The Fort, all involved with H & H Shipping, lay plans for who should hold which seats in government. Why do they care?
(a) They like to brag that they know influential politicians.
(b) They want to be sure government will favor their businesses.
(c) They like to place bets on how elections will turn out.
(d) They believe in the importance of democratic elections.

2. What does Whip Hoxworth bring from Formosa and ask Char Nyuk Tsin to plant?
(a) Potatoes.
(b) Rice.
(c) Orchids.
(d) Pineapple plants.

3. When a revolution takes place in Hawaii, what does Queen Liliuokalani do about it?
(a) She abdicates the throne.
(b) She shoots at her enemies.
(c) She faints.
(d) She sails to Bora Bora.

4. What are Char Nyuk Tsin and Mun Ki's sons named after?
(a) They are named after different friends in Hawaii.
(b) They are named after different flowers.
(c) They are named after different relatives in China.
(d) They are named after different continents.

5. What is the death rate at the Molokai leper colony when Mun Ki arrives?
(a) 4 or 5 people per month.
(b) 4 or 5 people per week.
(c) 4 or 5 people per day.
(d) 4 or 5 people per hour.

6. Hong Kong Kee receives a visit from a Boston man named Mr. McLafferty. What does Mr. McLafferty want to discuss?
(a) Pineapple prices on the mainland.
(b) Water rights.
(c) Sugar plantations.
(d) Real estate deals, especially those involving hotels.

7. Which is these men is NOT an example of a Golden Man?
(a) Hoxworth Hale.
(b) Kamejiro Sakagawa.
(c) Hong Kong Kee.
(d) Kelly Kanakoa.

8. Why doesn't Kamejiro pay for college for his youngest child, his daughter Reiko?
(a) He spends the money supporting Japan's war against China.
(b) He doesn't believe that girls need a college degree.
(c) He wants her to get married, not go to college.
(d) She is a poor student who isn't ready for college.

9. Why does Micah Hale think that America will try to take over Hawaii?
(a) For diamonds.
(b) For gold.
(c) For oil.
(d) For sugar.

10. What is Kee Chun Fat's advice to the men who are moving to Hawaii?
(a) Do not get married at all.
(b) Only have a wife in Hawaii.
(c) Only have a wife who stays in China.
(d) Have one wife in China and another wife in Hawaii.

11. What are Char Nyuk Tsin's sons told about their parents?
(a) That their real mother lives in China.
(b) None of the given answers.
(c) Both of the given answers.
(d) That their mother is of royal blood.

12. In 1942, when Hoxworth Hale tours the South Pacific in search of good sites for airstrips, where do his travels take him?
(a) Bora Bora.
(b) Pago Pago.
(c) Tahiti.
(d) All of the given answers.

13. What starts happening to Japanese people in Hawaii on December 10, 1941?
(a) They are shipped back to Japan.
(b) They are arrested on sight.
(c) They are honored with a parade in Honolulu.
(d) They are rounded up and placed in barbed-wire enclosures.

14. When Char Ti Chong and his people make a new home in the highlands, the group becomes known as the Hakka. What does "Hakka" mean?
(a) Friendly people.
(b) Guest people.
(c) Demon people.
(d) Beautiful people.

15. What cultural event does Shigeo attend in 1946 in Tokyo?
(a) A fireworks display.
(b) A calligraphy class.
(c) A tea ceremony.
(d) A sumo wrestling match.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of education do Kamejiro's children receive when they are young?

2. What happens when Shigeo Sakagawa runs for a senate seat?

3. What is the relationship between Kee Chun Fat (who made his fortune in the California gold fields) and Mun Ki (who works as a cook in a brothel in Macao)?

4. When her fifth son is born on Molokai, what does Char Nyuk Tsin do?

5. What does Goro's new wife think about the Sakagawa household?

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