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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year did the plantations in Hawaii deal with multiple strikes?
(a) 1879.
(b) 1900.
(c) 1934.
(d) 1978.

2. In what year did Hawaii begin recruiting Filipino workers?
(a) 1934.
(b) 1995.
(c) 1905.
(d) 1865.

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

4. Who did unmarried Hawaiian men use to find brides in Japan?
(a) Priests.
(b) Teachers.
(c) Agents.
(d) Police.

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

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

7. What location became the prime meeting spot for Chinese immigrants?
(a) Laundromats.
(b) Shopping malls.
(c) Stores.
(d) Restaraunts.

8. What industry was very popular for Japanese immigrants to work in?
(a) Agriculture.
(b) Engineering.
(c) Finance.
(d) Culinary arts.

9. How would unmarried Hawaiian men select Japanese brides?
(a) From picture books.
(b) Someone chose for them.
(c) They courted them.
(d) They were assigned by lottery.

10. What types of businesses did Japanese immigrants open?
(a) Forest preserves.
(b) Medical practices.
(c) Banks.
(d) Fruit and vegetable farms.

11. What did the Filipino labor contracts include?
(a) Transportation.
(b) Food.
(c) Wives.
(d) Bedding.

12. Why did Abiko Kyutaro return to Japan prior to moving permanently to America?
(a) To find a job.
(b) To find a wife.
(c) To pay off debts.
(d) To collect his children.

13. On what type of Hawaiian plantations needed Asian laborers?
(a) Sugar cane.
(b) Gin.
(c) Tobacco.
(d) Rum.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How were the Japanese treated in America?

2. How long had Takaki's family been in America?

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

4. How were the Japanese treated similarly to the Chinese immigrants?

5. What made Chinese immigrants a threat to the mining industry?

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