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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 Marxist term does Takaki give the Asian workforce?
(a) Pravda.
(b) The industrial reserve army.
(c) Laissez-faire.
(d) The capitalist navy.

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

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

4. What made Chinese immigrants a threat to the mining industry?
(a) Their pointy shoes.
(b) Their long hair.
(c) Their theivery.
(d) Their culture.

5. What was the reaction in Chapter 3, to the special taxes put upon Chinese immigrants?
(a) Tears.
(b) Lawsuits and protests.
(c) A new president.
(d) Cheers.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was a law passed that prohibited Japanese from owning land?

2. What were the names of the secret societies formed to protect Asian members?

3. How would unmarried Hawaiian men select Japanese brides?

4. Why did Chinese immigrants go into debt easily?

5. What was the purpose of the taxes that were imposed on immigrants, according to Takaki?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What name does Takaki give to Asian labor forces and where does the name come from?

3. Why did Takaki write this book?

4. How did the second generation of Koreans born in America differ from their parents?

5. What ethnic group does Takaki assert is the fastest growing population in the United States and why?

6. How did Chinese immigrants come to work on the Transcontinental Railroad in 1848?

7. How did Hawaiian men bring Asian women to Hawaii?

8. What work did Chinese female immigrants find in America?

9. During what years did Korean immigrants arrive in the United States and why?

10. What law did California pass that was aimed at Japanese farmers?

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