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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. Why do Kamejiro and his wife have trouble saving $400?
(a) Because they are always helping others.
(b) Because they buy too many luxuries.
(c) Because they send all of their money back to Japan.
(d) Because neither of them has a job.

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

3. Char Nyuk Tsin has trouble meeting the requirements for U.S. citizenship. Why?
(a) She is Chinese.
(b) She is too old.
(c) All of the given answers.
(d) She cannot read or write.

4. 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) John Whipple.
(b) Keoki Kanakoa.
(c) Abner Hale.
(d) Captain Hoxworth.

5. Why are so many members of the Kee family able to get jobs as bookkeepers?
(a) They are smart and well-educated.
(b) They are lucky.
(c) They blackmail the people who are doing the hiring.
(d) They bribe the people who are doing the hiring.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is NOT true about Kelly Kanakoa?

2. What is the relationship between Kee Chun Fat (who made his fortune in the California gold fields) and Mun Ki (who works as a cook in a brothel in Macao)?

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. Mark Whipple (West Point graduate and grandson of Dr. John Whipple) is resented by members of the Chinese community. Why?

5. In 1946, who attempts to organize the plantation workers?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In Chapter 6, Kelly Kanakoa is a surfer and musician who works as a beach boy. When he falls for Smith graduate Elinor Henderson, he takes her home to meet his mother, Malama Kanakoa. What does he think Elinor and his mother have in common?

3. 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?

4. 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?

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

6. Later in 1946, in the Japanese city of Yokahama, what does Shigeo notice about the involvement of women in the city's clean-up effort, and why does it seem unfair?

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. 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?

9. 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?

10. 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?

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