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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where did Takaki go to college?
(a) The Midwest.
(b) The East coast.
(c) The South.
(d) The West coast.

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

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

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

6. Why did the Japanese limit Korean immigration to Hawaii, according to Chapter 2?
(a) Korea went to war.
(b) So they could not compete with the Japense for jobs.
(c) The quota was already met.
(d) Hawaii decided to build a really big fence.

7. In what year were plans made for the transcontinental railroad?
(a) 1934.
(b) 1845.
(c) 1848.
(d) 1902.

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

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

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

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

12. Why did Hawaiian planters begin to hire nationalities other then Chinese?
(a) To keep unions out.
(b) There was a strike.
(c) The Chinese immigration rates decreased.
(d) Other people applied for the job.

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

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

15. What organization supported Chinese immigrants and protested their poor treatment?
(a) Chinese Star Shooters.
(b) Chinese Six Companies.
(c) NAAPP.
(d) FBI.

Short Answer Questions

1. What location became the prime meeting spot for Chinese immigrants?

2. What types of businesses did Japanese immigrants open?

3. Where did Chinese immigrants work in New England?

4. Why does Takaki assert that Asian immigrants opened their own businesses?

5. What were blood unions based upon?

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