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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. Where did Japanese women work in America?
(a) Out of the home.
(b) In laundromats.
(c) In and out of the home.
(d) At home.

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

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

4. Why did Japanese people immigrate to the United States according to Takaki?
(a) To make a higher wage.
(b) To escape harsh rulers.
(c) To escape criminal charages.
(d) For a change of scenery.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the American Land and Produce Company also known as?

2. What Marxist term does Takaki give the Asian workforce?

3. What did immigrants think about Hawaii? Why did they go there?

4. What made Chinese immigrants a threat to the mining industry?

5. How would unmarried Hawaiian men select Japanese brides?

Short Essay Questions

1. How were Japanese immigrants similar and different then Chinese immigrants?

2. Approximately how many Asians arrived in Hawaii between 1850 and 1920, and where did they work?

3. How does Takaki assert that Asians are discriminated against in Chapter 1?

4. How did the coupon payment system work and what was wrong with it?

5. What was the Chinese Six Companies?

6. What were the working conditions of Filipino immigrants?

7. Why did the Japanese limit Korean immigration?

8. What was the purpose of the taxes implemented on mining in the 1850s?

9. Why did Vietnamese immigrants arrive in America and where did they live when they first arrived?

10. How did Asian Indians migrate to America?

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