Read each of the following paragraphs and respond to each question by choosing the letter of the correct answer.
(1) The three largest groups of Asian Americans are the Chinese, the Filipinos, and the Japanese. (2)
Chinese immigrants began arriving in the United States in the 1840s. (3) Most of them were poor and largely uneducated. (4) They helped to fulfill a great need for cheap, unskilled laborers in the railroad and other industries in the American West. (5) Intense discrimination was present, however, in part because of competition with white workers for employment. (6) By 1882, Congress passed an exclusionary acthalting Chinese immigration. (7) Filipinos began immigrating to the United States in the early 1900s. (8) By 1930, their entry into the United States was also limited by a congressional exclusionary act. (9) Japanese immigrants began arriving in the United States from 1890 to 1920. (10) Many supplied labor for agricultural industries in Hawaii until another exclusionary act was passed in 1924 limiting Japanese immigration.
1. The topic of this paragraph is
a. the Chinese. c. Asian Americans.
b. Asian American discrimination. d. Filipinos.
2. The topic sentence of this paragraph is
a. sentence 1. c. sentence 5.
b. sentence 2. d. sentence 10.
3. Which of the following states a major supporting detail in this paragraph?
a. sentence 4 c. sentence 6
b. sentence 5 d. sentence 7
4. Which of the following offers a minor supporting detail in this paragraph?
a. sentence 1 c. sentence 7
b. sentence 2 d. sentence 10
1. c
2. a
3. d
4. d
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