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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many Asians arrived in Hawaii between 1850 and 1920?
(a) 1,000,000.
(b) 300,000.
(c) 100,000.
(d) 50,000.

2. What emotion did the picture brides feel when they met their husbands?
(a) Disappointment .
(b) Joy.
(c) Fear.
(d) Anger.

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

4. When was the foreign miners' license tax imposed?
(a) 1801.
(b) 1852.
(c) 1992.
(d) 1956.

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

6. When did Hawaiian planters begin hiring nationalities other then the Chinese?
(a) When the drought came.
(b) When the population died down.
(c) When the workers demanded more vacation time.
(d) When they became too dependent.

7. Which Chinese group became active in the opium and prostitution rings?
(a) The Orange Dragons.
(b) Fongs.
(c) White Cobras.
(d) Tongs.

8. Who did William Hoper find to be productive workers?
(a) Polish immigrants
(b) Brazilian immigrants.
(c) Women.
(d) Chinese immigrants.

9. How did Hawaiian plantation owners treat their workers?
(a) Well.
(b) They beat them.
(c) They starved them.
(d) Terribly.

10. In Chapter 3, how does Takaki claim Chinese immigrants were victimized?
(a) Insurance fraud.
(b) Violence.
(c) Theft.
(d) Rape.

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

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

13. What did the blood unions become in 1920?
(a) Fight! Freedom! Work!
(b) The Asian Pacific Party.
(c) The Laborers in Arms Association.
(d) Hawaii Laborers Association.

14. What were the names of the secret societies formed to protect Asian members?
(a) The Mighty Steeds.
(b) Mongs.
(c) Tongs.
(d) The Free Masons.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What were Asian workers issued that took the place of dollars?

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

3. What caused the strike with the Central Pacific Railroad to end?

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

5. Where did Japanese women work in America?

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