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This activity contains 15 questions.

	Which of the following statements about Chinese Americans is NOT correct?   During the 1990s the number of new arrivals from China exceeded the total number of Chinese Americans present in 1980. In 1990, 36 percent of Chinese Americans were employed in managerial and professional positions, compared to 26 percent of people in the United States as a whole. In 2000, the Japanese American population was slightly larger than the Chinese American population. In 2002, 340 illegal Chinese immigrants are apprehended at Chicago’s O’Hare airport each month.

	Which of the following statements about most Chinatowns in the United States is correct?   Tourists see Chinatowns as thriving areas of business and amusement. Chinatowns have large poor populations and face the problems associated with all slums. Chinatowns are most likely to be populated by thriving middle-class residents. Both a and b.

	Clans in the Chinese community have diminished in significance because:   the immigrant population from China has decreased since 1965. their responsibilities have been assumed by benevolent associations. their functions have been increasingly taken on by governmental agencies. all of the above.

	The membership of secret societies or tongs is determined by:   family membership. locale. interests. all of the above.

	Which of the following statements about clans, benevolent associations, and secret societies in the Chinese American community are correct?   When communicating with the dominant society, all these groups have downplayed the problems that afflict Chinatowns. The old associations have declined in significance as new arrivals from Asian metropolises bring little respect for the old rural ways to which such organizations were important. All three groups have performed similar functions, providing mutual assistance and representing their members' interests to a, sometimes hostile, dominant group. All of the above.

	Which of the following is a parallel between the Chinese Americans and Native American communities in the United States? Both groups:   occupy the bottom rungs of the economic ladder in the United States. depend upon the tourist industry and hide their social and economic problems to keep from disturbing potential tourists. have high rates of unemployment, illiteracy, and communicable diseases. all of the above are true.

	Small businesses, often in the garment industry of New York City, consist of workers sewing twelve hours a day, six and seven days a week, and earning about $200 weekly – well below minimum wage. These businesses are called:   hui kuans. tsus. sweatshops. tongs.

	Gang activity in the Chinese American community has:   remained low, which is another feature of their being a model minority. increased as Chinese American youths from lower class backgrounds, who are angry and alienated, turn to gangs to give them extortion money. decreased in recent years, as Chinese Americans acquire increased economic status. increased, as middle class Chinese youths fear that they will lose their status to more recent immigrants.

	Only a few pioneering Japanese came to the United States before 1885 because:   Japan's economic woes made it difficult for many Japanese citizens to afford the costly trans-Pacific boat fare. Japanese nationalism was extreme and very few Japanese citizens would even think of leaving that country. Japan had laws that prohibited emigration. the United States had immigration laws that prohibited immigration from Japan.

	California's 1913 and 1920 Alien Land Act:   prohibited anyone who was ineligible for citizenship from owning land and limited leases to 10 years. drove Japanese American citizens out of the country and into cities. led Japanese American citizens to abandon farming and enter management level positions in big cities. all of the above.

	Which of the following statements about World War II is correct?   Japanese American citizens were guilty of poisoning drinking water supplies, cutting patterns in Hawaiian sugar cane fields to form arrows directing enemy pilots to targets, and blocking traffic along highways to Pearl Harbor. A Japanese submarine attacked a California oil tank complex during the war. Japan attacked Pearl Harbor on July 4, 1948. Japanese American citizens in Hawaii cooperated in the attack on Pearl Harbor by using signaling devices to assist the pilots from Japan.

	Executive Order 9066:   was signed by President Harry S Truman on February 13, 1942. defined strategic military areas in the United States and authorized the removal from those areas of any people considered threats to national security. mandated that all individuals on the west coast of at least one-quarter Japanese ancestry were to be taken to assembly centers for transfer to evacuation camps. all of the above.

	In the Japanese relocation centers:   about 6,000 Nisei were recruited to work as interpreters and translators, and by 1943 a highly decorated unit of 23,000 volunteers fought for the United States government in Europe. evacuees had to depend on the government for food and shelter and were paid a maximum wage of $19 a month. high schools were established, Fourth of July parades were held, and Boy Scout and Girl Scout troops were established. all of the above.

	During World War II, the United States created relocation centers for:   Japanese Americans. German Americans. Italian Americans. all of the above.

	Perhaps the most dramatic development in the Japanese American community in recent years has been the upward mobility of the population collectively and individually. This upward mobility is the result of:   the concentration of Japanese Americans in Hawaii, California, Washington, New York and Illinois. the educational attainment of Japanese Americans as a group. the proportion of Japanese American families with multiple wage earners. all of the above.

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