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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 does Goro's new wife think about the Sakagawa household?
(a) Neither given answer is true.
(b) That it is an exciting new life.
(c) Both given answers are true.
(d) That it is like living in Japan 100 years ago.

2. Ishii becomes a representative for the Japanese Federation of Labor, trying to obtain better hours and better pay for the workers. When the workers go on strike, how do the planters and the Japanese Consulate react?
(a) Only the Japanese Consulate supports the workers.
(b) Only the planters support the workers.
(c) Neither group supports the workers.
(d) Both groups support the workers.

3. Shigeo plans to attend Harvard Law School. Why?
(a) He is afraid to go home to Hawaii.
(b) He wants to make a lot of money.
(c) He misses being a student.
(d) He believes there are not enough educated Japanese in Hawaii.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

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

4. What kind of document does Bromley Hale write about conditions on the original missionary ship that brought his relatives to Hawaii?

5. In 1946, who does Hoxworth Hale say is causing the real problem in Hawaii?

Short Essay Questions

1. In November of 1899, when plague breaks out in Honolulu, what drastic step does the city take to prevent the spread of the disease, and what happens as a result?

2. What historic event on December 7, 1941 endangers Kamejiro and his family?

3. In 1946, Hoxworth Hale keeps California Fruit and Mr. McLafferty from opening a chain of supermarkets in Hawaii. In turn, what ethnic groups does Mr. McLafferty tell Hong Kong Kee that the success of California Fruit would benefit?

4. 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?

5. 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?

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

7. 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?

8. Kee Chun Fat, who made his money in the California gold fields, tells his nephew, Mun Ki, what a Chinese must do in order to succeed in America. What is his advice?

9. Why does Whip Hoxworth believe that pineapples and sugar cane complement each other as crops to be raised on his plantations?

10. 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?

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