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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What other crop does Whip Hoxworth introduce to Hawaii?
(a) All of the given answers.
(b) Malaysian orange trees.
(c) Brazilian coffee beans.
(d) Ginger flowers.

4. Who treats the Chinese workers kindly on their voyage from China to Hawaii?
(a) John Whipple.
(b) Everybody.
(c) Captain Hoxworth.
(d) Nobody.

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

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

7. 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?
(a) Ishii-san gets married and then runs away.
(b) Only Kamejiro gets married.
(c) They decide to marry each other's brides.
(d) They each marry their intended bride.

8. 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.

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

10. Who does John Whipple believe will eventually control Hawaii?
(a) The Hawaiian royal family.
(b) The American missionaries.
(c) The Chinese workers.
(d) Whoever controls the water.

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

12. 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 losing properties from the Fort.
(b) They start selling all of their properties, good and bad, to the Fort.
(c) They stop buying and selling properties.
(d) They begin buying up prosperous properties from the Fort.

13. 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?
(a) Send a letter to his mother.
(b) Send twenty gold coins to his parents.
(c) Send a special kimono to Yoko.
(d) Send a letter to Yoko.

14. What does Kelly learn about Elinor as he gets to know her better?
(a) She is a descendant of missionary Immanuel Quigley.
(b) She wants to write a book.
(c) Both given answers are correct.
(d) Neither given answer is correct.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Hashimoto (a friend of Kamejiro's) after he marries a Hawaiian girl?

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

3. 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?

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

5. What important event takes place on July 6, 1898?

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