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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After the mining industry turned their back on the Chinese, what industry did they turn to?
(a) Financial.
(b) Marketing.
(c) Industrial.
(d) Farming.

2. In what city in California did Chinese immigrants build China Town?
(a) Sacramento.
(b) San Francisco.
(c) Tahoe.
(d) San Jose.

3. What was the purpose of the taxes that were imposed on immigrants, according to Takaki?
(a) All citizens should be taxed.
(b) Revenue.
(c) Law and order.
(d) Exclusion of the Chinese.

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

5. What does diversity in the work place accomplish according to Chapter 2?
(a) It prevents one block of immigrants from becoming too powerful.
(b) It provides an educational experience.
(c) It makes a positive work environment.
(d) The bosses experience multiple cultures.

6. What types of businesses did Japanese immigrants open?
(a) Fruit and vegetable farms.
(b) Banks.
(c) Forest preserves.
(d) Medical practices.

7. What does Takaki assert people think about America's population?
(a) That the population is Asian.
(b) That America is a melting pot.
(c) That the population is white.
(d) That the population is diverse.

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

9. What did immigrants think about Hawaii? Why did they go there?
(a) It was paradise.
(b) Easy access to fishing.
(c) It had a low cost of living.
(d) It was near the beach.

10. In what year were plans made for the transcontinental railroad?
(a) 1902.
(b) 1848.
(c) 1845.
(d) 1934.

11. How were the Japanese treated in America?
(a) Like the enemy.
(b) Like strangers.
(c) Like equals.
(d) Like brothers.

12. Which policy worker called for the use of Chinese workers on the transcontinental railroad?
(a) George Frank.
(b) William Clinton.
(c) Aaron H. Palmer.
(d) James F. Kennedy.

13. What did the Filipino labor contracts include?
(a) Food.
(b) Transportation.
(c) Bedding.
(d) Wives.

14. Why did Hawaiian planters begin to hire nationalities other then Chinese?
(a) There was a strike.
(b) The Chinese immigration rates decreased.
(c) Other people applied for the job.
(d) To keep unions out.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where did Japanese immigrants believe they would end up living after a few years of work?

3. During 1970-1980 how many immigrants were Asian?

4. Who did William Hoper find to be productive workers?

5. What emotion did the picture brides feel when they met their husbands?

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