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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did Lung On and Ing Hay do when they arrived in America?
(a) Became doctors.
(b) Went to college.
(c) Started farming.
(d) Opened businesses.

3. What percentage of Korean immigrants have college degrees?
(a) 25%
(b) 90%
(c) 70%.
(d) 2%

4. Where did Filipino immigrants work when they moved to Alaska?
(a) Hunting lodges.
(b) Hotel management.
(c) Dog sled races.
(d) Fishing boats.

5. In what industry did the majority of Koreans work?
(a) Law.
(b) Finance.
(c) Engineering.
(d) Agriculture.

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

7. Where is Little Taipei located?
(a) Maryland.
(b) China.
(c) Japan.
(d) California.

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

9. What war do Americans depict in films cruelly?
(a) The Vietnam War.
(b) The Cold War.
(c) WWI.
(d) WWII.

10. When did Lung On and Ing Hay come to America?
(a) 1900s.
(b) 1950s.
(c) 1880s.
(d) 1920s.

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

12. Who did The Chinese Six Companies support when China was taken over by communists?
(a) Communist China.
(b) America.
(c) No one.
(d) Kuomintang of Chiang Kai-shek.

13. Why did most Asian immigrants want to move to America?
(a) To escape criminal charges.
(b) For a better life.
(c) Political exile.
(d) Better farming.

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

15. What did Americans refer to the Asian-Indian workers as?
(a) Muslims.
(b) Sikhs.
(c) Sheiks.
(d) Hindus.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do the Asian female immigrants typically work in New York?

2. What were the wages like in the agricultural industry?

3. What does Takaki hope the reader learns about from his book?

4. Why did people immigrate from Laos?

5. What did the first generation of Koreans believe strongly in?

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