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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is NOT true about Kelly Kanakoa?
(a) His real first name is Kelolo.
(b) He works as a beach boy.
(c) His real mother is Char Nyuk Tsin.
(d) He is a surfer.

2. What happens to Elinor after she gets better acquainted with Kelly Kanakoa?
(a) She dies in a tsunami.
(b) She opens a popular restaurant in Honolulu.
(c) She writes a best-selling book.
(d) She marries Kelly Kanakoa.

3. When Whip Hoxworth dies in 1927, who is his chief heir?
(a) Hoxworth Hale.
(b) John Whipple.
(c) Sakagawa Kamejiro.
(d) Char Nyuk Tsin.

4. What happens when Shigeo Sakagawa runs for a senate seat?
(a) The vote ends in a tie.
(b) He loses the election.
(c) He wins the election.
(d) He is assassinated before the vote count is complete.

5. What does Kelly Kanakoa do in the early 1950s?
(a) Neither of the given answers.
(b) Teams up with Judy Kee to record an album.
(c) Both of the given answers.
(d) Teams up with Judy Kee to form Island Records.

6. Why is Char Nyuk Tsin, daughter of a Hakka chief, unmarried at the age of seventeen?
(a) She has no dowry.
(b) She is shy.
(c) She is unattractive.
(d) She does not have a favorable horoscope.

7. 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) Beautiful people.
(b) Guest people.
(c) Friendly people.
(d) Demon people.

8. Kelly Kanakoa is attracted to Elinor Henderson. Which of the following statements about Elinor is true?
(a) She is a graduate of Smith College.
(b) She is an orphan.
(c) She is deaf.
(d) She is illiterate but beautiful.

9. When Mun Ki is diagnosed with leprosy and sent to the leper colony on Molokai, accompanied by his pregnant wife, Char Nyuk Tsin, what do the two of them find there?
(a) An elaborate church but no clinic.
(b) Nothing but grass huts.
(c) A state-of-the-art hospital.
(d) A simple village with a clinic.

10. What happens in Honolulu's Chinatown in November of 1899?
(a) A riot.
(b) A huge fire.
(c) All of the given answers.
(d) An outbreak of plague.

11. What happens when the Japanese Federations of Labor workers' strike is broken?
(a) All of the given answers.
(b) The sugar planters going on making millions in profits.
(c) Kamejiro is blacklisted by the planters.
(d) Ishii receives a ten-year prison sentence.

12. 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 day.
(c) 4 or 5 people per hour.
(d) 4 or 5 people per week.

13. When Mark Whipple offers to lead a unit of Japanese soldiers into battle in Europe against the Germans, how many Japanese men volunteer to join the new unit, known as the 222nd?
(a) About 11,000 men.
(b) About 110 men.
(c) About 11 men.
(d) About 1,100 men.

14. 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) All of the given answers.
(d) Tahiti.

15. 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 want to be sure government will favor their businesses.
(b) They like to place bets on how elections will turn out.
(c) They believe in the importance of democratic elections.
(d) They like to brag that they know influential politicians.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of man is Big Saul at the Molokai leper colony?

2. Hong Kong Kee receives a visit from a Boston man named Mr. McLafferty. What does Mr. McLafferty want to discuss?

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

4. When Whip Hoxworth wants Kamejiro to move to Oahu to work, he offers to pay him with land, but Kamejiro insists on a payment of $200 instead. Is this a good decision by Kamejiro?

5. What starts happening to Japanese people in Hawaii on December 10, 1941?

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