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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, pg. 79-112.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Marxist term does Takaki give the Asian workforce?
(a) Laissez-faire.
(b) The industrial reserve army.
(c) The capitalist navy.
(d) Pravda.

2. When was the foreign miners' license tax imposed?
(a) 1956.
(b) 1801.
(c) 1852.
(d) 1992.

3. How many Koreans arrived in America between 1903 and 1920?
(a) 5,432.
(b) Less then 2,000.
(c) More then 12,000.
(d) More then 8,000.

4. What did immigrants think about Hawaii? Why did they go there?
(a) Easy access to fishing.
(b) It was paradise.
(c) It was near the beach.
(d) It had a low cost of living.

5. What caused the strike with the Central Pacific Railroad to end?
(a) An agreement was reached.
(b) Central Pacific Railroad went bankrupt.
(c) The Chinese people found a better company to work for.
(d) The Central Pacific Railroad threatened to hire black men instead.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the Indian immigrants attempting to escape in India?

2. Why did Japanese people immigrate to the United States according to Takaki?

3. When did Hawaiian planters begin hiring nationalities other then the Chinese?

4. Where did Takaki go to college?

5. What did the Filipino labor contracts include?

(see the answer key)

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