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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What were the professions of the second wave of female Filipinos?
(a) Technical workers.
(b) Seamstress.
(c) Cooks.
(d) Doctors.

2. Why were Asian-Indian workers subjected to racial slurs?
(a) Because they dressed differently.
(b) Because of food.
(c) Because of religion.
(d) Because of language.

3. Where did the Filipinos arrive from?
(a) An American territory.
(b) A French territory.
(c) A Japanese territory.
(d) A Dutch territory.

4. Who did The Chinese Six Companies support when China was taken over by communists?
(a) Kuomintang of Chiang Kai-shek.
(b) America.
(c) No one.
(d) Communist China.

5. When did Lung On and Ing Hay come to America?
(a) 1950s.
(b) 1920s.
(c) 1880s.
(d) 1900s.

6. Where did Kuomintang of Chiang Kai-shek flee to?
(a) Paris.
(b) Thailand.
(c) Hawaii.
(d) Tawaiin.

7. Why did people immigrate from Laos?
(a) Poverty.
(b) Dreams of a better education system.
(c) America invited them.
(d) Civil strife.

8. Who had conflicts with the Asian-Indian workers?
(a) Japanese workers.
(b) Black workers.
(c) Korean workers.
(d) White workers.

9. Why did Pakistanis migrate to America?
(a) Better government.
(b) Less pollution.
(c) Better education.
(d) Less war.

10. What did the letters Lung On and Ing Hay received demand they do?
(a) Return home.
(b) Pay their visa fees.
(c) Pay taxes.
(d) Close their buisness.

11. Where did Asian-Indian workers work in California?
(a) Gold mines.
(b) Steel mills.
(c) The fields.
(d) The fishing boats.

12. What were the wages like in the agricultural industry?
(a) High.
(b) Average.
(c) Low.
(d) The same as their white coworkers.

13. What war do Americans depict in films cruelly?
(a) WWI.
(b) The Vietnam War.
(c) WWII.
(d) The Cold War.

14. Why did Chinese immigrants forge documents after the fires in 1906?
(a) To bring their family to America.
(b) To return to China.
(c) To vote.
(d) To own property.

15. In what industry did the majority of Koreans work?
(a) Law.
(b) Finance.
(c) Agriculture.
(d) Engineering.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of farming were Asian-Indians active in?

2. What did Americans refer to the Asian-Indian workers as?

3. Where did Asian-Indian workers work in Washington?

4. What does Takaki hope the reader learns about from his book?

5. What were Filipinos considered by Americans?

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