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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Takaki hope the reader learns about from his book?
(a) The history of immigration.
(b) Discrimination.
(c) The history of Hawaii.
(d) Asian culture.

2. How were the conditions in the agricultural industry?
(a) Average.
(b) Poor.
(c) Excellent.
(d) Fair.

3. Where did Vietnamese immigrants stay when they arrived in America?
(a) Family businesses.
(b) Hotels.
(c) Military camps.
(d) Family homes.

4. What Chinese immigrants were allowed to bring their wives?
(a) Merchants.
(b) Farmers.
(c) Doctors.
(d) Lawyers.

5. What did the planters in the agricultural industry think of Filipino immigrants?
(a) They were rude.
(b) They were friendly.
(c) They were difficult.
(d) They were hard workers.

6. Where did the Filipinos arrive from?
(a) A Dutch territory.
(b) An American territory.
(c) A French territory.
(d) A Japanese territory.

7. In what year did Hawaiians recruit Asian-Indian workers?
(a) 1943.
(b) 1902.
(c) 1825.
(d) 1865.

8. When did the Filipinos begin to migrate?
(a) 1910.
(b) 1837.
(c) 1945.
(d) 1905.

9. After the war who registered to vote?
(a) Koreans.
(b) Japanese.
(c) Blacks.
(d) Asian-Indians.

10. Koreans were accepted ________ their Asian peers.
(a) About the same as.
(b) As equals to.
(c) More than.
(d) Less than.

11. What is the income level of Asian immigrants?
(a) Average.
(b) Above average.
(c) The top 1%.
(d) Below average.

12. Unlike their counterparts in Hawaii, what did Filipinos in other states face?
(a) Unions.
(b) Equality.
(c) Racial discrimination.
(d) Fair wages.

13. Where did Takaki grow up?
(a) Hawaii.
(b) Michigan.
(c) Japan.
(d) California.

14. What did Chinese soldiers bring to the United States between 1948 and 1953?
(a) Drugs.
(b) Spy documents.
(c) Children.
(d) Chinese brides.

15. In 1940, what percent of Chinese immigrants lived on the West coast?
(a) 12%.
(b) 92%.
(c) 49%.
(d) 57%.

Short Answer Questions

1. In whose name did Asian-Indian place their land to avoid the Alien Land Law?

2. Who became the largest ethnic voting block in Hawaii after the war?

3. How do educated immigrants function in American society?

4. How does Takaki described the majority of Chinese immigrants in his book?

5. In what industry did most of the Filipino immigrants work?

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