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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 were the Indian immigrants attempting to escape in India?
(a) The education system.
(b) British rule.
(c) War.
(d) Genocide.

2. What caused the strike with the Central Pacific Railroad to end?
(a) An agreement was reached.
(b) The Central Pacific Railroad threatened to hire black men instead.
(c) The Chinese people found a better company to work for.
(d) Central Pacific Railroad went bankrupt.

3. What was the Japanese community based upon?
(a) Shared cultural values.
(b) Shared struggles.
(c) A common diet.
(d) A common religion.

4. What industry was very popular for Japanese immigrants to work in?
(a) Agriculture.
(b) Engineering.
(c) Culinary arts.
(d) Finance.

5. What were Asian workers issued that took the place of dollars?
(a) Visas.
(b) Coupons.
(c) Stones.
(d) Coins.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did the plantations in Hawaii deal with multiple strikes?

2. Why did Chinese immigrants go into debt easily?

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

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

5. What did the blood unions become in 1920?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why did Vietnamese immigrants arrive in America and where did they live when they first arrived?

3. What were the working conditions of Filipino immigrants?

4. How did WWII change America?

5. What did Filipino immigrants do when they lived in Alaska?

6. Approximately how many Asians arrived in Hawaii between 1850 and 1920, and where did they work?

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

8. How did Americans react to Filipino immigration?

9. How did the coupon payment system work and what was wrong with it?

10. Who were the only Chinese men allowed to bring their wives to the United States?

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