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

2. In what year did Hawaii begin recruiting Filipino workers?
(a) 1865.
(b) 1995.
(c) 1934.
(d) 1905.

3. Who signed a law prohibiting Japanese from migrating from Hawaii to the mainland?
(a) President Kennedy.
(b) President Roosevelt.
(c) President Ford.
(d) President Nixon.

4. How were the Japanese treated in America?
(a) Like brothers.
(b) Like strangers.
(c) Like equals.
(d) Like the enemy.

5. What organization supported Chinese immigrants and protested their poor treatment?
(a) Chinese Star Shooters.
(b) FBI.
(c) Chinese Six Companies.
(d) NAAPP.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was a law passed that prohibited Japanese from owning land?

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

3. What was the purpose of the taxes that were imposed on immigrants, according to Takaki?

4. How did Hawaiian plantation owners treat their workers?

5. How long had Takaki's family been in America?

Short Essay Questions

1. What were the effects of the big earthquake in 1906?

2. What were the working conditions of Filipino immigrants?

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

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

5. What was the major industry Filipino immigrants became involved in?

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

7. What is the life of a first generation immigrant like in America?

8. How were Japanese immigrants similar and different then Chinese immigrants?

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

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

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