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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to Shigeo's three brothers who also served in World War II?
(a) All three survive.
(b) Two are filled; only one survives.
(c) One is killed; the other two survive.
(d) All three are killed.

2. Why do Japanese men in Hawaii want to join the U.S. military in 1942?
(a) To prove their loyalty.
(b) To have fun.
(c) To get a rest from their jobs.
(d) To get rich.

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

4. What advice does 94-year-old Char Nyuk Tsin give to her grandson, Hong Kong Kee, after the events of December 7, 1941?
(a) To sell all the land they can.
(b) None of the given answers.
(c) To do no more buying and selling until events calm down.
(d) To buy all the land they can.

5. 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) Have one wife in China and another wife in Hawaii.
(d) Only have a wife who stays in China.

6. Char Nyuk Tsin vanishes from the Hakka's High Village. Why?
(a) She falls off a cliff.
(b) She runs away.
(c) None of the given answers.
(d) She is kidnapped.

7. Why are so many members of the Kee family able to get jobs as bookkeepers?
(a) They blackmail the people who are doing the hiring.
(b) They are smart and well-educated.
(c) They are lucky.
(d) They bribe the people who are doing the hiring.

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

9. With help from Hong Kong Kee, what powerful group does Mr. McLafferty's company hope to challenge?
(a) The Kee family.
(b) The Fort.
(c) The Japanese workers.
(d) The plantations owners.

10. What kind of document does Bromley Hale write about conditions on the original missionary ship that brought his relatives to Hawaii?
(a) A simple statement of facts.
(b) An admiring account of their bravery.
(c) An ironic satire.
(d) A poetic ode.

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

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

13. What does Whip Hoxworth believe is the future of Hawaii?
(a) Sugar and pineapples.
(b) Pigs and chickens.
(c) Orchids and ginger flowers.
(d) Pearls and coral.

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) Beautiful people.
(d) Demon people.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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)?

2. When Kamejiro goes to work on one of Whip Hoxworth's plantations, what does he ask for permission to build?

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?

4. What other crop does Whip Hoxworth introduce to Hawaii?

5. What are Char Nyuk Tsin's sons told about their parents?

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