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

2. Who did unmarried Hawaiian men use to find brides in Japan?
(a) Agents.
(b) Teachers.
(c) Police.
(d) Priests.

3. What jobs did female Chinese immigrants hold according to Chapter 3?
(a) Doctors.
(b) Seamstress.
(c) Housekeepers and prostitutes.
(d) Teachers.

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

5. During 1970-1980 how many immigrants were Asian?
(a) 100%
(b) One third.
(c) 1,099,002.
(d) Half.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Abiko Kyutaro return to Japan prior to moving permanently to America?

2. What made Chinese immigrants a threat to the mining industry?

3. Why did Chinese immigrants begin to open laundromats?

4. Who believed that the Japanese should have the goal of being settlers?

5. In Chapter 3, where does Takaki write that many Chinese immigrants settled?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did the McCarran-Watter Act declare?

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

3. What name does Takaki give to Asian labor forces and where does the name come from?

4. What is partnership farming and who participated?

5. How did Asian Indians tend to dress and how did this lead to racial slurs?

6. How did Chinese immigrants come to work on the Transcontinental Railroad in 1848?

7. Why did Filipinos immigrate to America?

8. Where did Filipinos come from and why were they considered American citizens?

9. How did WWII change America?

10. Why did Chinese immigrants settle in California in the 1800s? What law effected this?

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