Deck 11: The Japanese Experience

Question 1

The ________ came to the United States before the 1924 exclusion.

A)Issei
B)Nisei
C)Sansei
D)Yonsei

Answer 1

A

Question 2

The goal of the Issei was to assist the:

A)Yonsei.
B)Issei.
C)Nisei.
D)Sansei.

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Most anti-Japanese efforts in the United States began about:

A)1776.
B)1800.
C)1863.
D)1900.

Answer 3

D

Question 4

One of the outcomes of the compromise of the School Board Crisis was:

A)increased Japanese immigration to the United States.
B)the Gentlemen's Agreement.
C)the Oriental Agreement.
D)denial of all Japanese marriages.

Question 5

Which U.S.Supreme Court case ruled that all Japanese Americans should be set free immediately?

A)Hirabayashi v.the United States
B)Korematsu v.the United States
C)Ex Parte Endo
D)Wasaka v.Topaz

Question 6

The School Board Crisis took place in all of the following except:

A)San Francisco.
B)early 1900s.
C)Japan.
D)United States.

Question 7

All of the following states housed Japanese detainees except:

A)Utah.
B)Idaho.
C)Missouri.
D)Colorado.

Question 8

The Japanese family tended to be all of the following except:

A)Mother dominated.
B)Father dominated.
C)male child preferred.
D)cohesive.

Question 9

The majority of Japanese in the 1900 U.S.Census count were:

A)old.
B)women.
C)men.
D)citizens.

Question 10

The most important Issei group was the:

A)Shogun.
B)Jenjinkai riku.
C)Kenjinkai.
D)Yonsei Kenjin.

Question 11

The dominant element in the development of Japanese relocation is arguably:

A)national security.
B)military objectives.
C)race prejudice.
D)threats to the war effort.

Question 12

Which factor helped to bring the fall of Shogun rule in Japan?

A)European Conquest of Japan
B)European trade with Japan
C)European defeat from Japan
D)assassination of all Shogun warriors by Perry's troops

Question 13

The ________ ________ law came in response to fears that Japanese would take over all the land in California.

A)Immigration Reform
B)Alien Land
C)Alien Reform
D)Immigration Land

Question 14

In 1922 the U.S.Supreme Court ruled that Ozawa was not White and not a:

A)Japanese.
B)immigrant.
C)thief.
D)citizen.

Question 15

Who ordered the removal of Japanese Americans to camps?

A)General DeWitt
B)General Eisenhower
C)President Roosevelt
D)the U.S.Supreme Court

Question 16

By 1941,the Japanese American community had been developed for ________ years.

A)27
B)50
C)92
D)127

Question 17

Japanese Americans in Hawaii included all of the following except:

A)37 percent of the population
B)200,000 imprisoned Japanese Americans
C)1,118 imprisoned Japanese Americans
D)individually arrested and charged Japanese Americans who were arrested

Question 18

One man,a Japanese evacuee named James Wakasa,had fought in WWI and was ________ by a guard in the Topaz camp.

A)honored
B)given preferential treatment
C)beaten
D)shot and killed

Question 19

The "Picture-Bride" program:

A)dramatically increased Japanese American numbers in the United States.
B)depleted the United States of Japanese.
C)stopped all Japanese immigration.
D)nearly started a war.

Question 20

Approximately how many Japanese Americans were imprisoned without warrants or indictments?

A)10,000
B)60,000
C)110,000
D)1 million

Question 21

Life in most Japanese detainee camps was harsh.

Question 22

Nisei were American-born citizens.

Question 23

Alien Land Laws were based on 1790 naturalization rules.

Question 24

In 1988,how much money did Congress award each of the 60,000 detainees who were still alive?

A)$1 million
B)$500,000
C)$100,000
D)$20,000

Question 25

Overall,in the early period of Japanese immigration,San Francisco was friendly to Japanese
immigrants.

Question 26

About 20,000 Japanese American men and women were inducted for the war effort.

Question 27

The Gentlemen's Agreement was reached between the United States and Japan.

Question 28

Which organization helped to procure a cash settlement in 1988 for each surviving Japanese American detainee and an apology from President George Bush?

A)JACL
B)AIM
C)SIM
D)NIYC

Question 29

Which decade saw the highest numbers of Japanese immigrants to the United States according to Table 11.1?

A)1861-1870
B)1901-1910
C)1961-1970
D)1990-2000

Question 30

In 1986,it was established that Gordon Hirabayashi:

A)would never be exonerated.
B)was in fact guilty of espionage.
C)was exonerated.
D)was deported.

Question 31

The JACL never took Japanese American issues to heart.

Question 32

According to JARP research,which generation is more assimilated?

A)Issei
B)Nisei
C)neither the Issei nor the Nisei
D)Both the Issei and the Nisei are equally assimilated.

Question 33

A Japanese moderate residential index of dissimilarity would be:

A)15.
B)60 and over.
C)83.
D)46.

Question 34

The Immigration Quota Act of 1924 upheld the Gentlemen's Agreement.

Question 35

Japanese out-marriage appears to be on a/an ________ trend.

A)upward
B)downward
C)neutral
D)dual-directional

Question 36

The text points out that Japanese Americans exceed Whites in all of the following except:

A)crime rates.
B)income.
C)education.
D)professional occupations.

Question 37

Kenjin were Japanese provinces.

Question 38

The Picture-Bride program had little effect on Japanese American population counts.

Question 39

All of the arrested and imprisoned Japanese Americans during WWII were tried and
convicted.

Question 40

All of the following are reported in your text as observations of the model Minority Stereotype except:

A)It ignores other Asian groups' problems.
B)It fits all Asian groups.
C)It indirectly blames all immigrant groups for failure.
D)It ignores ongoing discrimination.

Question 41

The "Model Minority Stereotype" is the best way to understand Japanese and all Asian
Americans.

Question 42

Levine and Montero argued that Japanese American culture will remain for a while.

Question 43

Every U.S.Supreme Court case referring to being detained came out ruling in favor of
Japanese Americans.

Question 44

Question #28 on the loyalty questionnaire was an easy question for most detainees in the
camps.

Question 45

Culture is critical to the understanding of Japanese American experience in the United States.

Question 46

The Yonsei and Sansei are the most "American" of all Japanese generations in the United
States.

Question 47

It's only a stereotype that East Asian parents still value more education for their children as
lower educational achievement scores now indicate.

Question 48

Hawaii has very little interracial marriage compared to the rest of the United States.

Question 49

Levine and Rhodes (1981)found that Nisei are not very neighborly folks.

Question 50

Fugita and O'Brian found that in 1985 most Japanese Americans only belonged to Japanese
organizations.

Question 51

As one might expect,assimilation was highest among the Sansei.