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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who does Goro Sakagawa marry?
(a) Malama Kanakoa.
(b) Akemi.
(c) Elinor Henderson.
(d) Judy Kee.

4. What does Mun Ki do when he arrives in Hawaii?
(a) Claims Char Nyuk Tsin as his wife.
(b) Learns to speak English.
(c) All of the given answers.
(d) Takes a job as John Whipple's cook.

5. Ishii becomes a representative for the Japanese Federation of Labor, trying to obtain better hours and better pay for the workers. When the workers go on strike, how do the planters and the Japanese Consulate react?
(a) Both groups support the workers.
(b) Only the Japanese Consulate supports the workers.
(c) Neither group supports the workers.
(d) Only the planters support the workers.

6. When Army captain Shigeo Sakagawa, arrives in Hawaii in 1946 on leave, what happens to him?
(a) None of the given answers.
(b) He becomes part of a victory parade in Honolulu.
(c) He is ignored.
(d) He is stoned by protesters.

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

8. What promise does Char Nyuk Tsin make to her husband, Mun Ki, at the Molokai leper colony?
(a) She will build a huge bonfire in his honor.
(b) She will send money to his wife in China after he dies.
(c) She will remarry after he dies.
(d) She will convert to Christianity.

9. How does the leper colony change after Big Saul dies?
(a) The people there look after and help one another.
(b) All of the given answers.
(c) The people there plant gardens.
(d) The people there implement the rules they need.

10. What action does the Kee family undertake because of what Char Nyuk Tsin learns from the newspaper about company values?
(a) They begin buying up prosperous properties from the Fort.
(b) They start selling all of their properties, good and bad, to the Fort.
(c) They begin buying up losing properties from the Fort.
(d) They stop buying and selling properties.

11. In 1946, who attempts to organize the plantation workers?
(a) Kelly Kanakoa.
(b) Elinor Henderson.
(c) Goro Sakagawa.
(d) Char Nyuk Tsin.

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

13. 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 wants her to get married, not go to college.
(c) He doesn't believe that girls need a college degree.
(d) She is a poor student who isn't ready for college.

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

15. What does Kamejiro Sakagawa do in 1952?
(a) He votes for his son, Shigeo, who is running for senator.
(b) He refuses to apply for U.S. citizenship.
(c) He refuses to return to Japan.
(d) He applies for U.S. citizenship.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many children do Kamejiro and his wife eventually have?

2. Why are so many members of the Kee family able to get jobs as bookkeepers?

3. How long does the journey of Char Ti Chong and his people take?

4. Who treats the Chinese workers kindly on their voyage from China to Hawaii?

5. What happens when the Japanese Federations of Labor workers' strike is broken?

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