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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why did Chinese immigrants begin to open laundromats?
(a) Familes could run the buisness.
(b) They were fired from the railroad.
(c) The initial capital was low.
(d) There was a great need for the service.

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

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

5. What did immigrants think about Hawaii? Why did they go there?
(a) It had a low cost of living.
(b) Easy access to fishing.
(c) It was near the beach.
(d) It was paradise.

6. What types of businesses did Japanese immigrants open?
(a) Banks.
(b) Forest preserves.
(c) Medical practices.
(d) Fruit and vegetable farms.

7. Where did Chinese immigrants work in New England?
(a) Shoe Factories.
(b) Raking leaves.
(c) Tire Factories.
(d) Maple fields.

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

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

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

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

12. How were the Japanese treated in America?
(a) Like brothers.
(b) Like the enemy.
(c) Like equals.
(d) Like strangers.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. After the mining industry turned their back on the Chinese, what industry did they turn to?

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

4. Why did very few Chinese immigrants return to China according to The Chinese Six Companies?

5. When did the Indian population begin to grow in Hawaii?

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