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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Which policy worker called for the use of Chinese workers on the transcontinental railroad?
(a) William Clinton.
(b) Aaron H. Palmer.
(c) George Frank.
(d) James F. Kennedy.

6. What emotion did the picture brides feel when they met their husbands?
(a) Fear.
(b) Anger.
(c) Disappointment .
(d) Joy.

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

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

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

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

11. What were blood unions based upon?
(a) Family ties.
(b) Wealth.
(c) National origin.
(d) Marriage.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was put into place to protect Chinese immigrants but ultimately did not work?

2. Why did Chinese workers strike while working on the railways?

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

4. What position did Asians hold on the occupational ladder, according to Takaki?

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

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