Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

Ronald Takaki
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Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Japanese women work in America?
(a) Out of the home.
(b) In laundromats.
(c) In and out of the home.
(d) At home.

2. Who did the foreign miners' license tax apply to?
(a) Europeans.
(b) Chinese workers that were citizens.
(c) Africans.
(d) Chinese workers that did not want to become citizens.

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

4. What was put into place to protect Chinese immigrants but ultimately did not work?
(a) A wall.
(b) Federal laws.
(c) Prison guards.
(d) The Guardian Angels.

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

6. What did the blood unions become in 1920?
(a) The Laborers in Arms Association.
(b) Fight! Freedom! Work!
(c) Hawaii Laborers Association.
(d) The Asian Pacific Party.

7. What made Chinese immigrants a threat to the mining industry?
(a) Their theivery.
(b) Their long hair.
(c) Their pointy shoes.
(d) Their culture.

8. What were Chinese immigrants subjected to by American citizens, according to Chapter 3?
(a) Gentrification.
(b) Prejudice and immigration.
(c) Burning crosses.
(d) Welcoming to the community.

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

10. In Chapter 3, how does Takaki claim Chinese immigrants were victimized?
(a) Violence.
(b) Insurance fraud.
(c) Theft.
(d) Rape.

11. When Hawaii could not longer import Chinese workers, who did they entice to the workforce next?
(a) Mexicans.
(b) French.
(c) Koreans.
(d) Japanese.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did immigrants think about Hawaii? Why did they go there?

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

3. Who did William Hoper find to be productive workers?

4. What was the purpose of the taxes that were imposed on immigrants, according to Takaki?

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

(see the answer keys)

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