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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, pgs. 112-131.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Chinese immigrants begin to open laundromats?
(a) Familes could run the buisness.
(b) The initial capital was low.
(c) There was a great need for the service.
(d) They were fired from the railroad.

2. Why did Filipino immigrants come to Hawaii?
(a) To escape poverty.
(b) To escape criminal sentences.
(c) To learn how to surf.
(d) To be near the beach.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What caused the strike with the Central Pacific Railroad to end?

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

3. Where did Chinese immigrants work in New England?

4. What organization supported Chinese immigrants and protested their poor treatment?

5. What was the purpose of the taxes that were imposed on immigrants, according to Takaki?

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