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

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

3. When did Hawaiian planters begin hiring nationalities other then the Chinese?
(a) When the workers demanded more vacation time.
(b) When the population died down.
(c) When the drought came.
(d) When they became too dependent.

4. In what city in California did Chinese immigrants build China Town?
(a) San Jose.
(b) San Francisco.
(c) Tahoe.
(d) Sacramento.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many Chinese workers were hired to work on the railways in 1865?

3. When did the first wave of Asian immigration begin?

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

5. Why did Chinese immigrants begin to open laundromats?

(see the answer key)

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