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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did the husbands force their Japanese brides to wear upon their arrival to Hawaii?
(a) Western clothes.
(b) Maid outfits.
(c) Kimonas.
(d) Hats.

3. After the mining industry turned their back on the Chinese, what industry did they turn to?
(a) Industrial.
(b) Farming.
(c) Marketing.
(d) Financial.

4. Who believed that the Japanese should have the goal of being settlers?
(a) Abiko Kyutaro.
(b) Takaki.
(c) Professor Hank.
(d) Professor Kyto.

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

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

7. What valley did the author grow up in?
(a) Palolo Valley.
(b) Annapolis Valley.
(c) Valley Gorge.
(d) San Fernando Valley.

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

9. What was the Japanese community based upon?
(a) Shared cultural values.
(b) Shared struggles.
(c) A common religion.
(d) A common diet.

10. What was the purpose of the taxes that were imposed on immigrants, according to Takaki?
(a) All citizens should be taxed.
(b) Law and order.
(c) Exclusion of the Chinese.
(d) Revenue.

11. What was the American Land and Produce Company?
(a) A banana company.
(b) A Japanese farming community.
(c) A collection of white business owners.
(d) A Japanese landscaping company.

12. How many Chinese workers were hired to work on the railways in 1865?
(a) 1,000.
(b) 50.
(c) 9,000.
(d) 3.

13. How did Hawaiian plantation owners treat their workers?
(a) Terribly.
(b) They beat them.
(c) Well.
(d) They starved them.

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

15. When was the foreign miners' license tax imposed?
(a) 1801.
(b) 1956.
(c) 1852.
(d) 1992.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which Chinese group became active in the opium and prostitution rings?

3. What was the American Land and Produce Company also known as?

4. Where did Japanese immigrants believe they would end up living after a few years of work?

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

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