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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long does the journey of Char Ti Chong and his people take?
(a) Many months.
(b) Many weeks.
(c) Many years.
(d) Many days.

2. What does Whip Hoxworth bring from Formosa and ask Char Nyuk Tsin to plant?
(a) Pineapple plants.
(b) Potatoes.
(c) Orchids.
(d) Rice.

3. Goro Sakagawa hopes that his wife will be happy in Hawaii. In 1954, what does she do?
(a) Catches leprosy.
(b) Gives birth to triplet boys.
(c) Becomes a U.S. citizen.
(d) Moves to Japan with her father-in-law and mother-in-law.

4. When Reiko's family's objection to the romance causes Lieutenant Jackson to be sent away, who does her family arrange for her to marry instead?
(a) Her father's friend, Mr. Ishii.
(b) Hoxworth Hale.
(c) Hong Kong Kee.
(d) Mark Whipple.

5. What best describes the stores owned and operated by Char Nyuk Tsin and her family, the Kees?
(a) The stores are clean and the prices are fair.
(b) The stores are dirty and the prices are high.
(c) The stores are dirty but the prices are low.
(d) The stores are clean but the prices are high.

6. What promise does Char Nyuk Tsin make to her husband, Mun Ki, at the Molokai leper colony?
(a) She will convert to Christianity.
(b) She will send money to his wife in China after he dies.
(c) She will build a huge bonfire in his honor.
(d) She will remarry after he dies.

7. In 1946, who attempts to organize the plantation workers?
(a) Goro Sakagawa.
(b) Elinor Henderson.
(c) Char Nyuk Tsin.
(d) Kelly Kanakoa.

8. When Whip Hoxworth wants Kamejiro to move to Oahu to work, he offers to pay him with land, but Kamejiro insists on a payment of $200 instead. Is this a good decision by Kamejiro?
(a) Yes, because the land is useless.
(b) It didn't matter, because the value is the same.
(c) None of the given answers.
(d) No. The land is eventually worth far more.

9. In 1902, in the Japanese village of Hiroshima-ken, villagers use an ancient courtship custom. According to this custom, what should a young suitor do regarding the young woman he wishes to court?
(a) Stand before her 12 times in one week without speaking.
(b) Send white flowers to her, every day for a month.
(c) Pay her parents for the privilege of courting her.
(d) Kidnap the girl he desires.

10. 20-year-old Sakagawa Kamejiro courts Yoko. Before he leaves for Hawaii, what does he tell his family he will do when he is ready to marry her?
(a) Send a letter to Yoko.
(b) Send a special kimono to Yoko.
(c) Send twenty gold coins to his parents.
(d) Send a letter to his mother.

11. After Mun Ki dies, Char Nyuk Tsin returns to Hawaii to look for her youngest son. Who does she find raising him?
(a) Governor Kelolo Kanakoa.
(b) Her friends, Kimo and Apikela.
(c) John Whipple.
(d) Her older sons.

12. A group of influential businessmen known as The Fort, all involved with H & H Shipping, lay plans for who should hold which seats in government. Why do they care?
(a) They want to be sure government will favor their businesses.
(b) They believe in the importance of democratic elections.
(c) They like to place bets on how elections will turn out.
(d) They like to brag that they know influential politicians.

13. What happens to Hashimoto (a friend of Kamejiro's) after he marries a Hawaiian girl?
(a) All of the given answers.
(b) He is fired from his job.
(c) He is treated like an outcast.
(d) He is forbidden to attend the Japanese church.

14. What happens on December 7, 1941, the day after the committee visits Kamejiro's house?
(a) Kamejiro's house is burned down.
(b) United States bombers attack Japan.
(c) The U.S. and Japan become allies.
(d) Japanese bombers attack Pearl Harbor.

15. Char Nyuk Tsin (also known as Wu Chow's Auntie) is 61 years old in 1912. How many descendants does she have in her extended family, the Kees?
(a) 32.
(b) 65.
(c) 97.
(d) 10.

Short Answer Questions

1. What action does the Kee family undertake because of what Char Nyuk Tsin learns from the newspaper about company values?

2. What kind of man is Big Saul at the Molokai leper colony?

3. What is Kee Chun Fat's advice to the men who are moving to Hawaii?

4. What was the reaction in Hawaii to passage of the McCarren-Walter Immigration Act?

5. What does Goro's new wife think about the Sakagawa household?

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