Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans Quiz | Eight Week Quiz B

Ronald Takaki
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 88 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans Quiz | Eight Week Quiz B

Ronald Takaki
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, pg. 79-112.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Chinese workers strike while working on the railways?
(a) Higher wages.
(b) Pensions.
(c) Sexual harrasment.
(d) Health insurance.

2. During 1970-1980 how many immigrants were Asian?
(a) 1,099,002.
(b) 100%
(c) Half.
(d) One third.

3. When did the Indian population begin to grow in Hawaii?
(a) 1907.
(b) 1935.
(c) 1865.
(d) 1976.

4. Why does Takaki assert that Asian immigrants opened their own businesses?
(a) Lack of taxes.
(b) Work ethic.
(c) Government assistance.
(d) Exclusion from labor force.

5. What is a credit ticket?
(a) The borrowing of money for passage to Hawaii.
(b) The bartering sysmtem on the islands.
(c) The receipt of credit.
(d) How business owners traded workers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did unmarried Hawaiian men use to find brides in Japan?

2. What valley did the author grow up in?

3. On what island did the author grow up?

4. What does Takaki assert people think about America's population?

5. When did Hawaiian planters begin hiring nationalities other then the Chinese?

(see the answer key)

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