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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why did very few Chinese immigrants return to China according to The Chinese Six Companies?
(a) No money.
(b) No passport.
(c) The government would not let them return.
(d) Lack of family.

3. In what year did the plantations in Hawaii deal with multiple strikes?
(a) 1934.
(b) 1978.
(c) 1900.
(d) 1879.

4. What were blood unions based upon?
(a) Wealth.
(b) Marriage.
(c) Family ties.
(d) National origin.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which policy worker called for the use of Chinese workers on the transcontinental railroad?

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

3. What was the reaction in Chapter 3, to the special taxes put upon Chinese immigrants?

4. How many Asians arrived in Hawaii between 1850 and 1920?

5. On what type of Hawaiian plantations needed Asian laborers?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Americans react to Filipino immigration?

2. Describe the environment Takaki grew up in.

3. How are Asians discriminated against in modern society?

4. What were the effects of the big earthquake in 1906?

5. Describe the story of Lung On and Ing Hay.

6. What are blood unions and what did they later become?

7. Why did Hawaiian business owners began hiring workers other then Chinese immigrants?

8. What was the Chinese Six Companies?

9. Why did Chinese immigrants open laundromats?

10. Describe the Chinese immigrants' experience with the Central Pacific Railroad.

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