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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) Financial.
(b) Marketing.
(c) Industrial.
(d) Farming.

2. How many Asians arrived in Hawaii between 1850 and 1920?
(a) 300,000.
(b) 1,000,000.
(c) 100,000.
(d) 50,000.

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

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

5. Why did Chinese immigrants go into debt easily?
(a) Low wages.
(b) High spending habits.
(c) Lack of knowledge of credit laws.
(d) No access to internet to pay bills.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Takaki go to college?

2. Why did very few Chinese immigrants return to China according to The Chinese Six Companies?

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

4. What valley did the author grow up in?

5. What did the husbands force their Japanese brides to wear upon their arrival to Hawaii?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who did The Chinese Six Companies support when China became a communist country?

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

3. What is partnership farming and who participated?

4. Explain the term 'paper son.'

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

6. How does Takaki assert that Asians are discriminated against in Chapter 1?

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

8. Why did Chinese immigrants open laundromats?

9. What was the purpose of the taxes implemented on mining in the 1850s?

10. How did Americans react to Filipino immigration?

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