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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. 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) He wins the election.
(d) The vote ends in a tie.

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

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

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

5. Hong Kong Kee receives a visit from a Boston man named Mr. McLafferty. What does Mr. McLafferty want to discuss?
(a) Pineapple prices on the mainland.
(b) Real estate deals, especially those involving hotels.
(c) Sugar plantations.
(d) Water rights.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1952, the United States passed the McCarren-Walter Immigration Act. What did this Act do?

2. What are Char Nyuk Tsin and Mun Ki's sons named after?

3. Which is these men is NOT an example of a Golden Man?

4. With help from Hong Kong Kee, what powerful group does Mr. McLafferty's company hope to challenge?

5. What happens on December 7, 1941, the day after the committee visits Kamejiro's house?

Short Essay Questions

1. Army captain Shigeo Sakagawa marches in a victory parade in Honolulu in 1946, but the occasion is a bittersweet one for him. He and his country have won the war, but Shigeo has suffered a great personal loss. What is it?

2. When Shigeo Sakagawa is sent by the U.S. Army to serve in Japan in 1946, his mother urges him to try to marry a girl from the area around Hiroshima. What major historical event of World War II is she ignoring when she gives him this advice?

3. Between 1893 and 1898, a power struggle plays out between Hawaii's Queen Liliukalani and a group of politicians that includes descendants of the original missionary families. How is this struggle resolved in July of 1898?

4. 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?

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

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

7. 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?

8. Ever since he came to Hawaii in 1904, Kamejiro has been donating money to help support Japan's battles against other countries. By 1936, what responsibility to one of his children can Kamejiro not fulfill because so much of his money has been sent to Japan?

9. In Japan in 1902, twenty-year-old Sakagawa Kamejiro is sent by his family council to work in the Hawaii sugar fields. Why does he agree to leave his homeland and take this job?

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

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