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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Char Nyuk Tsin (also known as Wu Chow's Auntie) is 61 years old in 1912. How many descendants does she have in her extended family, the Kees?
(a) 32.
(b) 97.
(c) 65.
(d) 10.

3. In 1951, when Char Nyuk Tsin is 104 years old, what statement does her grandson read aloud from the newspaper that catches her interest?
(a) Real estate is no longer a safe place to invest money.
(b) None of the given answers.
(c) A company can be more valuable losing money than making it.
(d) A company can be more valuable making money than losing it.

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

5. 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)?
(a) They are strangers.
(b) They are brothers.
(c) They are father and son.
(d) They are uncle and nephew.

6. What kind of man is Big Saul at the Molokai leper colony?
(a) A doctor.
(b) A fair leader.
(c) A minister.
(d) A bully.

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

8. 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?
(a) It didn't matter, because the value is the same.
(b) Yes, because the land is useless.
(c) None of the given answers.
(d) No. The land is eventually worth far more.

9. What happens to Hashimoto (a friend of Kamejiro's) after he marries a Hawaiian girl?
(a) He is forbidden to attend the Japanese church.
(b) He is treated like an outcast.
(c) He is fired from his job.
(d) All of the given answers.

10. What was the reaction in Hawaii to passage of the McCarren-Walter Immigration Act?
(a) Neither of the given answers.
(b) Both of the given answers.
(c) The act was generally warmly received.
(d) Classes formed to help people prepare for citizenship.

11. What does Mun Ki's boss ask him to deliver to Hawaii?
(a) A bag of gold coins.
(b) A letter to his brother.
(c) The Hakka girl named Char Nyuk Tsin.
(d) An important business proposal.

12. The lowland people are the Punti. How do they behave toward the highland Hakka?
(a) The Hakka enslave the Punti.
(b) The two groups work together in harmony.
(c) They share no friendly contact.
(d) The Punti enslave the Hakka.

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

14. What happens on December 7, 1941, the day after the committee visits Kamejiro's house?
(a) Kamejiro's house is burned down.
(b) Japanese bombers attack Pearl Harbor.
(c) The U.S. and Japan become allies.
(d) United States bombers attack Japan.

15. After Mun Ki dies, Char Nyuk Tsin returns to Hawaii to look for her youngest son. Who does she find raising him?
(a) Governor Kelolo Kanakoa.
(b) Her older sons.
(c) John Whipple.
(d) Her friends, Kimo and Apikela.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does John Whipple come to China in 1865?

2. After 13 years in Hawaii, Kamejiro and his friend Ishii-san both send away to Japan for a bride. What happens when the two young women arrive?

3. 20-year-old Sakagawa Kamejiro courts Yoko. Before he leaves for Hawaii, what does he tell his family he will do when he is ready to marry her?

4. 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?

5. In 1946, who attempts to organize the plantation workers?

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