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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 valley did the author grow up in?
(a) San Fernando Valley.
(b) Annapolis Valley.
(c) Palolo Valley.
(d) Valley Gorge.

2. Which Chinese group became active in the opium and prostitution rings?
(a) The Orange Dragons.
(b) Fongs.
(c) Tongs.
(d) White Cobras.

3. In what year was a law passed that prohibited Japanese from owning land?
(a) 1965.
(b) 1845.
(c) 1913.
(d) 1945.

4. Why did Filipino immigrants come to Hawaii?
(a) To escape criminal sentences.
(b) To escape poverty.
(c) To learn how to surf.
(d) To be near the beach.

5. What was the purpose of the taxes that were imposed on immigrants, according to Takaki?
(a) Exclusion of the Chinese.
(b) Revenue.
(c) Law and order.
(d) All citizens should be taxed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What organization supported Chinese immigrants and protested their poor treatment?

2. How many Chinese workers were hired to work on the railways in 1865?

3. What were the names of the secret societies formed to protect Asian members?

4. What emotion did the picture brides feel when they met their husbands?

5. What was the American Land and Produce Company?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the second generation of Koreans born in America differ from their parents?

2. What was the cause of Anti-Filipino sentiment and what did it lead to?

3. What was the Chinese Six Companies?

4. Explain the term 'paper son.'

5. How did Americans react to Filipino immigration?

6. What work did Chinese female immigrants find in America?

7. What law did California pass that was aimed at Japanese farmers?

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

9. Describe the story of Lung On and Ing Hay.

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

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