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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After the mining industry turned their back on the Chinese, what industry did they turn to?
(a) Farming.
(b) Industrial.
(c) Financial.
(d) Marketing.

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

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

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

5. According to Takaki, what is the occupational structure based on?
(a) Family.
(b) Race.
(c) Gender.
(d) Wealth.

Short Answer Questions

1. What jobs did female Chinese immigrants hold according to Chapter 3?

2. In what state did the author grow up?

3. Where did Japanese immigrants believe they would end up living after a few years of work?

4. In what year were plans made for the transcontinental railroad?

5. What valley did the author grow up in?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what neighborhoods did Korean immigrants live in?

2. Why did the sugar plantations treat their workers well? How did they treat them well?

3. Why did Vietnamese immigrants arrive in America and where did they live when they first arrived?

4. Why did the Korean immigrants not have their own community to live in?

5. How were Chinese immigrants victimized?

6. What did Filipino immigrants do when they lived in Alaska?

7. Define the Tongs and the Fongs.

8. Describe the environment Takaki grew up in.

9. What jobs did Filipino women hold prior to coming to America?

10. How did the Japanese become the largest voting block in Hawaii?

(see the answer keys)

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