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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. Why did Japanese people immigrate to the United States according to Takaki?
(a) To escape criminal charages.
(b) For a change of scenery.
(c) To escape harsh rulers.
(d) To make a higher wage.

2. How long had Takaki's family been in America?
(a) One generation.
(b) Ten generations.
(c) Six months.
(d) More than three generations.

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

4. What is a credit ticket?
(a) How business owners traded workers.
(b) The bartering sysmtem on the islands.
(c) The receipt of credit.
(d) The borrowing of money for passage to Hawaii.

5. During 1970-1980 how many immigrants were Asian?
(a) 100%
(b) One third.
(c) Half.
(d) 1,099,002.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year were plans made for the transcontinental railroad?

2. Why did Chinese immigrants begin to open laundromats?

3. After the mining industry turned their back on the Chinese, what industry did they turn to?

4. How many Koreans arrived in America between 1903 and 1920?

5. What did the Filipino labor contracts include?

(see the answer key)

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