What is feijoada?
A type of Brazilian cheese bread
A kind of coffee bean
A bean stew with beef and pork
A traditional Japanese noodle soup
Why did people from Japan first begin moving to Brazil in 1908?
To open electronics factories
To go on vacation
To work on coffee plantations
To escape a war
Which neighborhood in São Paulo did the Japanese immigrants settle in?
Liberdade
Hamamatsu
Paulista Avenue
Chinatown
Why did the Japanese-Brazilians move to Hamamatsu?
To start street markets
To work on coffee farms
To work in electronics and automobile factories
To build new neighborhoods
What are the Japanese immigrants in Brazil called?
Nikkei
Hamamatsu
Paulistas
Cariocas
If you settle in Shanghai, you...
Travel there for business.
Refuse to learn the language.
Buy traditional goods there.
Go and live there for a long time.
A community is best described as:
An automobile factory.
A reverse migration.
A group of people living in one particular area.
A type of traditional food.
If a local restaurant is popular, it means:
It is very expensive.
It only serves foreigners.
It is empty most of the time.
It is liked or enjoyed by many people.
What native language did most of the Japanese-Brazilians speak when they arrived in Japan?
Portuguese
Spanish
English
Japanese
Which sentence about the street market in Liberdade is NOT true?
It is highly popular.
It happens every weekend.
You can buy traditional Japanese goods.
It is only open for city residents, not tourists.
True/False: Today, there is still a large Brazilian population in the city of Hamamatsu.
True
False
What kinds of food can you find on every corner in São Paulo's Japanese district today?
Coffee and bread
Pão de queijo and feijoada
Tacos and burritos
Ramen noodles and sushi
Cloze: In 1908, people from Japan began moving to Brazil to work on coffee __________.
plantations
markets
neighborhoods
factories
When did the reverse migration of Japanese-Brazilians back to Japan begin?
In 1908
In the 1950s
In the 1980s
In the early 20th century
Roughly how many Japanese-Brazilians moved back to Japan?
30,000
100,000
1 million
Over 300,000
A generation refers to:
A street market event.
A type of cooking.
All the people of about the same age within a society or family.
A neighborhood where people live.
What is the main purpose of the reading passage?
To discuss how to cook traditional food
To compare global city populations
To explore the role of food in immigrant communities
To explain why coffee is grown in Brazil
True/False: Feijoada is a traditional Japanese dish sold in Liberdade.
False
True
What does the passage say is possible to do in Hamamatsu today?
Eat excellent sushi
Speak perfect Japanese
Eat traditional Brazilian cuisine
Work on a coffee plantation
The Japanese immigrants who moved to Brazil spoke their native language and prepared foods from their home country.
True
False
Cloze: Most Japanese-Brazilians spoke only their native language, ________, and missed the foods of Brazil.
Spanish
Japanese
English
Portuguese
What is pão de queijo?
A traditional Japanese fish dish
A street market snack from Japan
A type of bread
A bean stew
What is the definition of immigrants?
People who come to a foreign country to live.
People who visit a country for a short holiday.
People who only eat traditional food.
People who work on coffee plantations.