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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 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) Neither of the given answers.
(d) The act was generally warmly received.

2. Who is the old man who walks into a Chinese temple on the island of Maui, screams at the people there, and hits objects with his cane?
(a) Keoki Kanakoa.
(b) Abner Hale.
(c) John Whipple.
(d) Captain Hoxworth.

3. How long does the journey of Char Ti Chong and his people take?
(a) Many weeks.
(b) Many years.
(c) Many months.
(d) Many days.

4. When Kamejiro goes to work on one of Whip Hoxworth's plantations, what does he ask for permission to build?
(a) Both given answers.
(b) Neither given answer.
(c) A bigger dining hall.
(d) A heated bath.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kelly learn about Elinor as he gets to know her better?

2. Why does John Whipple come to China in 1865?

3. Kamejiro's daughter, Reiko, is courted by a soldier, Lieutenant Jackson. What is Lieutenant Jackson's military assignment?

4. What happens to Shigeo's three brothers who also served in World War II?

5. Most of Char Nyuk Tsin's great-great-grandchildren do not know her real name. How do they refer to her?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. In 1868, Mun Ki is eager to return to China with his four sons and his wife, Nyuk Tsin, when his work contract ends. Why would such a return effectively separate Nyuk Tsin from her sons?

4. 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?

5. In 1946, Hong Kong Kee becomes aware that he is being investigated by someone from the mainland. What local individual does he discover is behind the inquiries?

6. In 1952, who does Malama Kanaoka learns has been appointed as trustee for the Malama Kanaoka Trust, and why is the appointment sociologically interesting?

7. 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?

8. 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?

9. 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?

10. 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?

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