1Who wrote the landmark Asian American history book Strangers From a Different Shore?

A) Elaine Kim

B) Ronald McDonald

C) Ronald Takaki

 

 

 

2What is the name of the Academy Award-winning documentary by Rene Tajima-Pena and Christine Choy?

A) “Buddha B-boys”

B) “The Joy Luck Club”

C) “Who Killed Vincent Chin?”

 

 

 

3Between 1910 and 1940, approximately 175,000 Asian immigrants passed through which entry point to the U.S.?

 

A) Ellis Island

B) Angel Island

C) Alcatraz Island

 

 

 

4What is the topic of Carlos Bulosan’s novel America is in the Heart?

A) Internal organs

B) Early Filipino laborers

C) Asians in the media

 

 

 

5Which is the second largest Asian American group in the United States?

 

A) Korean Americans

B) Filipino Americans

C) Japanese Americans

 

 

 

 

6Who was the first Asian American to serve in the U.S. Congress?

A) Mike Honda

B) Dalip Singh Saund

C) Jay Kim

 

 

 

7 What landmark act eliminated national quotas and facilitated Asian immigration to the U.S.?

 

A) Johnson-Reed Act of 1924

B) McCarran-Walter Act of 1952

C) Hart-Cellar Act of 1965

 

 

 

8Which Chinese-American author won two National Book Critics Award for Nonfiction?

 

A) Sandra Tsing Loh

B) Amy Tan

C) Maxine Hong Kingston

 

 

 

 

9Who was one of the few voices of opposition in the Roosevelt administration to Executive Order 9066, which resulted in the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII?

 

A) General John DeWitt

B) J. Edgar Hoover

C) Henry L. Stimson

 

 

 

10Who was the first Asian American to win a Pulitzer Prize?

A) Huynh Cong Ut

B) Chang-Rae Lee

C) Amy Tan

 

 

 

11What state is home to the largest population of Korean adoptees (more than 10,000)?

A) Minnesota

B) California

C) Texas

 

 

 

12 Who was Dr. Haing S. Ngor?

 

A) A Cambodian American physician and actor

B) Founder of the Asian Pacific American Legal Center

C) The character Dr. Doolittle is based on

 

 

 

13Which Asian American historian popularized the use of Asian American versus the now-defunct term Oriental to refer to Americans of Asian descent?

A) Pearl S. Buck

B) Sucheng Chan

C) Yuji Ichioka

 

 

 

 

14Syngman Rhee, the first president of South Korea, received a degree from which American university?

 

A) Princeton University

B) Harvard University

C) University of Pennsylvania

 

 

 

15Which Asian American was the first to lead a combat battalion for the United States during war?  Hint: 442nd Regimental Combat Team