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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How were the Japanese treated similarly to the Chinese immigrants?
(a) As dedicated workers.
(b) With respect.
(c) Racial prejudice.
(d) With open arms.

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

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

4. How long had Takaki's family been in America?
(a) More than three generations.
(b) Ten generations.
(c) Six months.
(d) One generation.

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

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

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

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

9. What were the Indian immigrants attempting to escape in India?
(a) War.
(b) British rule.
(c) Genocide.
(d) The education system.

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

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

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

13. In what city in California did Chinese immigrants build China Town?
(a) Tahoe.
(b) Sacramento.
(c) San Jose.
(d) San Francisco.

14. On what island did the author grow up?
(a) Maui.
(b) Long Island.
(c) Rikers.
(d) Oahu.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Takaki go to college?

2. Who did the foreign miners' license tax apply to?

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

4. What Marxist term does Takaki give the Asian workforce?

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

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