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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 3, where does Takaki write that many Chinese immigrants settled?

2. What did the blood unions become in 1920?

3. Why did Chinese workers strike while working on the railways?

4. Why did Hawaiian planters begin to hire nationalities other then Chinese?

5. How many Koreans arrived in America between 1903 and 1920?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why did Hawaiian business owners began hiring workers other then Chinese immigrants?

3. How did Hawaiian men bring Asian women to Hawaii?

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

5. How did WWII change America?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the construction of Chinatown and how it helped cement the Chinese community in America.

Essay Topic 2

Describe the events surrounding the earthquake in 1906. How did this event change immigration? What illegal activities did it encourage?

Essay Topic 3

Which country colonized Korea and what was Korea's opinion of that colonization? What is the Korean independence movement? How did the colonization of Korea lead to Korean immigration to America?

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