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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, pg. 21-53.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Takaki assert that Asian immigrants opened their own businesses?
(a) Exclusion from labor force.
(b) Lack of taxes.
(c) Work ethic.
(d) Government assistance.

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

3. In what year were plans made for the transcontinental railroad?
(a) 1845.
(b) 1902.
(c) 1934.
(d) 1848.

4. What does Takaki say is the fastest growing ethnic population?
(a) Middle Eastern.
(b) Asian.
(c) Haitian.
(d) Columbian.

5. Who did William Hoper find to be unproductive workers at his sugar mill?
(a) Asians.
(b) Caucasions.
(c) Hawaiians.
(d) The elderly.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Takaki go to college?

2. Why did Hawaiian planters begin to hire nationalities other then Chinese?

3. On what island did the author grow up?

4. What does diversity in the work place accomplish according to Chapter 2?

5. What valley did the author grow up in?

(see the answer key)

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