Campus Council on Community & Diversity
Educational Exercises
Educational Exercises
This
page will periodically post various educational exercises designed to
promote reflection about how the Principles of Community can be implemented
on campus.
The Women's Quiz exercise below features interesting facts and accomplishments of several historical women.
1. Where did the first Chinese American who went to college graduate from?
a. University of California, Davis
b. Harvard
c. Yale
d. University of Michigan
Answer: C. Yung Wing graduated from Yale University in 1854, becoming the
first Chinese American ever to graduate from an American University.
2. When was Asian Pacific American Heritage Month established?
a. 1960
b. 1970
c. 1980
d. 1990
Answer: D. President Jimmy Carter signed a Joint Resolution on October 5, 1978 declaring the first ten days of May Asian Pacific Heritage Week. In May of 1990, George H. W. Bush designated Asian Pacific American Heritage Month to be the whole month of May to commemorate the immigration of the first Japanese immigrants to the United States.
3. Who was the last Queen of Hawai’i?
a. Liliuokalani
b. Kanani
c. Lelani
d. Leana
Answer: A. Liliokalani took the throne in 1891 after the death of her brother, Kin Kalakaua. She was dethroned in 1893 after a revolt from sugar planters (mostly Americans residents who lived in Hawai’i); she formally renounced her royal claims in 1895. Following this tragic moment in history, she wrote songs, including “Aloha Oe” and “Farewell to Thee.”
4. Can you name one of Maxine Hong Kingston’s books?
a. The Kitchen God’s Wife
b. Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
c. The Joy Luck Club
d. Yellow-Oh Girls
Answer: B. Maxine Hong Kingston was born in 1940 in Stockton California. She was one of the pioneers to bring Asian American literature to the attention of the public. Some of her many award-winning books include: Woman Warrior, China Men, Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book, and The Fifth Book of Peace.
5. What is Bruce Lee’s real name?
a. Ng Yu
b. Lee Yuen Kam
c. Sen Wu
d. Ben Lee
Answer: B. Bruce Lee was born Lee Yuen Kam in 1940 in San Francisco, California. His two most notorious American films are Return of the Dragon and Enter the Dragon. He is best known for extraordinary martial arts skills.
6. Where did the first Chinatown blossom?
a. San Francisco
b. New York
c. Michigan
d. Texas
Answer: A. In 1850, a Chinese neighborhood sprung up in San Francisco’s Portsmouth Square. In 1854, the Chinese Benevolent Association (aka the Six Companies) assisted new immigrants who came from six of the respective provinces in China. The Kong Chow Temple, a Buddhist Shrine was constructed in Chinatown in the late 1850’s. By the late 1800’s two third of Chinese people lived in California cities, and almost half lived in San Francisco’s Chinatown. It was not recognized as a community until the Chinese YMCA and a public library were implemented in the early 1900’s.
7. When did the first Asian Pacific Islanders first arrive in the continental
United
States?
a. 1875
b. 1901
c. 1763
d. 1520
Answer: C. The first Asian Pacific Islanders to arrive in the Continental United States were Filipino men who jumped a Spanish ship in 1763. They established the first Filipino community in Louisiana bayou.
8. Who is currently the Secretary of Labor in the Bush administration?
a. Benjamin J. Cayetano
b. Maxine Hong Kingston
c. John Wu
d. Elaine Chao
Answer: D. Elaine Chao currently serves as the Secretary of Labor. Director
of the Peace Corp in 1991 and 1992, and a leader in the United Way from 1992
to 1996 and a Chinese immigrant, she now seats in a crucial seat in the Bush
administration.
9. What was Kalpana Chawla’s occupation?
a. Astronaut
b. Teacher
c. Senator
d. Actress
Answer: A. Kalpana Chawla, who was born in Karnal, India, was an astronaut for NASA. She was the first Indian-American woman to go into space. Her extraordinary career ended in 2003, when the Shuttle Columbia tragically exploded upon re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere.
10. What is Angel Island infamous for?
a. Island base on the West Coast
b. A holding place for enemy prisoners in WWII
c. State Park
d. A place to process Asian immigrants
Answer: D. In 1910 to 1940, Angel Island, which sits off the coast of San Francisco, was a holding area for Asian immigrants. It is also nicknamed “Ellis Island of the West” because of its major processing rituals. Although it is a state park currently, it still holds a lot of unsettling memories for those who visit it.
This Quiz adapted from InfoPlease: Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
THE EARTH
If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look something like the following. There would be:
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57 Asians |
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21 Europeans |
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14 from the Western Hemisphere, both north and south |
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8 Africans |
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52 would be female |
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48 would be male |
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70 would be non-white |
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30 would be white |
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70 would be non-Christian |
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30 would be Christian |
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89 would be heterosexual |
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11 would be homosexual |
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6 people would possess 59% of the entire's world's wealth and all 6 would be from the United States |
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80 would live in substandard housing |
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70 would be unable to read |
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50 would suffer from malnutrition |
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1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth |
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1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education |
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1 would own a computer |
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When one considers our world from such a compressed perspective, the need for both acceptance, understanding and education become glaringly apparent." |
Philip M. Harter, MD, FACEP Stanford University, School of Medicine