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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who signed a law prohibiting Japanese from migrating from Hawaii to the mainland?
(a) President Kennedy.
(b) President Nixon.
(c) President Ford.
(d) President Roosevelt.

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

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

4. What industry did many Chinese immigrants move to the United States for?
(a) Steel mining.
(b) Gold mining.
(c) Coal mining.
(d) Diamond mining.

5. What did immigrants think about Hawaii? Why did they go there?
(a) It was paradise.
(b) It was near the beach.
(c) It had a low cost of living.
(d) Easy access to fishing.

6. At what grade did education stop for plantation worker's children?
(a) 12th grade.
(b) 8th grade.
(c) 4th grade.
(d) 1st grade.

7. Why did Chinese immigrants go into debt easily?
(a) Lack of knowledge of credit laws.
(b) No access to internet to pay bills.
(c) High spending habits.
(d) Low wages.

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

9. What was the ethnic composition where the author grew up?
(a) French.
(b) Caucasion.
(c) Japanese and Chinese.
(d) Chinese and African American.

10. What was the American Land and Produce Company also known as?
(a) Yamato Colony.
(b) Dannon.
(c) Dole.
(d) Chiquita.

11. How many Koreans arrived in America between 1903 and 1920?
(a) More then 8,000.
(b) 5,432.
(c) Less then 2,000.
(d) More then 12,000.

12. What did Takaki write that contributed to growth of the Asian population in America?
(a) Immigration Act of 1965.
(b) Freedom of speech.
(c) Immigration Act of 1922.
(d) Freedom of religion.

13. How were the Japanese treated in America?
(a) Like strangers.
(b) Like equals.
(c) Like the enemy.
(d) Like brothers.

14. When did the Indian population begin to grow in Hawaii?
(a) 1935.
(b) 1976.
(c) 1907.
(d) 1865.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Chinese immigrants begin to open laundromats?

2. Who believed that the Japanese should have the goal of being settlers?

3. How did Hawaiian plantation owners treat their workers?

4. In what year did Hawaii begin recruiting Filipino workers?

5. What does Takaki assert people think about America's population?

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