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This activity contains 10 questions.

	In 1990, 26 percent of Chinese Americans were employed in managerial and professional positions, compared to 36 percent of people in the United States as a whole.    True  False

	The Chinese benevolent associations, or hui kuans, provided their members with assistance as they adjusted to a new country, but government agencies have taken on this function.    True  False

	The hui kuans are traditionally part of an unofficial government in each city called the Chinese Six Companies.    True  False

	When the tsu, hui kuan, and tongs communicate with the dominant society, they have emphasized the problems in Chinatowns and have actively sought governmental assistance to rectify these problems.    True  False

	Both Chinese Americans in Chinatowns and Native Americans on reservations depend on the tourist trade and hide their social problems to avoid scaring away potential tourists.    True  False

	Life in Chinatown has been and still is particularly dreary for many Chinese American women who sit at sewing machines twelve hours a day, six or seven days a week in "labor camps" that go largely unregulated.    True  False

	During the first significant wave of Japanese immigration to the United States in the 1890s, workers quickly filled middle management positions similar to those that they had held in Japan prior to their migration to the United States.    True  False

	The Kibei are third generation Japanese Americans.    True  False

	Executive Order 9066 prohibited anyone – specifically Japanese Americans – who was ineligible for citizenship from owning land and limited leases to three years.    True  False

	Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, brought the United States into World War II and marked a painful tragedy for the Sansei and Yonsei.    True  False

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