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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In 9th-century China, when Char Ti Chong and the villagers flee from the Tartar invasion, where do they plan to go?
(a) To a secret cave, to hide.
(b) To the neighboring village, for help.
(c) To the Golden Valley, with General Ching.
(d) To the Tartar's homeland.

2. 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 implement the rules they need.
(d) The people there plant gardens.

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

4. 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) Demon people.
(c) Beautiful people.
(d) Guest people.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The next time the Fort meets, what do its members discover?

2. What does Kamejiro Sakagawa do in 1952?

3. When Whip Hoxworth dies in 1927, who is his chief heir?

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 does Kelly Kanakoa do in the early 1950s?

Short Essay Questions

1. In 1952, as soon as 106-year-old Nyuk Tsin hears that it is legal for an Asian to become a U.S. citizen, she tries to learn to read and write so that she can pass the test. When she can't meet that requirement, what compromise is reached?

2. Author James Michener states that the Hakka villagers are "Chinese to the core and steeped in Chinese lore," and yet they refuse to follow the Chinese tradition of foot binding. Why?

3. During the early days of World War II, how does a war-bond speech made by Hong Kong Kee end up causing him to loan the money that enables Kamejiro to open a grocery store?

4. What incident on August 19, 1916, causes hard feelings between Kamejiro and the German supervisor or "luna" under whom he works on the sugar plantation?

5. On December 10, 1941, many members of the Japanese community in Hawaii are rounded up and placed in barbed-wire enclosures. What do the descendants of the white missionary families do about this?

6. Is Nyuk Tsin's strategy of buying up losing properties from their major competition, the Fort, a smart business move? Why or why not?

7. What Japanese tradition do Kamejiro and his wife Yoriko introduce in Hawaii as a way to make some much-needed extra money?

8. In China, in the year 856 A.D., General Ching offers to lead a group of villagers in an escape from the Tartar invasion, but states that old people must stay behind. What happens when Char's elderly mother insists on joining the march?

9. Identify who "the Celestials" are, and name at least one term of their employment.

10. Compare how the Hakka and Punti workers deal with each other before their voyage to Hawaii and how they act after the voyage. Why is there a change?

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