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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, pg. 294-314.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did Americans refer to the Asian-Indian workers as?
(a) Sheiks.
(b) Muslims.
(c) Hindus.
(d) Sikhs.

3. Which Chinese group became active in the opium and prostitution rings?
(a) The Orange Dragons.
(b) Tongs.
(c) Fongs.
(d) White Cobras.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many Asians arrived in Hawaii between 1850 and 1920?

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

3. According to Takaki, what is the occupational structure based on?

4. On what island did the author grow up?

5. Where did Asian-Indian workers work in California?

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