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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 Marxist term does Takaki give the Asian workforce?
(a) Laissez-faire.
(b) The capitalist navy.
(c) The industrial reserve army.
(d) Pravda.

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

3. What did the Filipino labor contracts include?
(a) Food.
(b) Wives.
(c) Bedding.
(d) Transportation.

4. In what city in California did Chinese immigrants build China Town?
(a) San Francisco.
(b) San Jose.
(c) Sacramento.
(d) Tahoe.

5. What was the ethnic composition where the author grew up?
(a) Japanese and Chinese.
(b) French.
(c) Caucasion.
(d) Chinese and African American.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the Indian immigrants attempting to escape in India?

2. Which Chinese group became active in the opium and prostitution rings?

3. When was the foreign miners' license tax imposed?

4. In what year did Hawaii begin recruiting Filipino workers?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What are blood unions and what did they later become?

2. Why did Korean immigrants clash with Japanese immigrants in America.

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

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

5. What did the McCarran-Watter Act declare?

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

7. What ethnic group does Takaki assert is the fastest growing population in the United States and why?

8. Why did Filipinos immigrate to America?

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

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

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