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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter IX, The Puerto Ricans.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What percentage of Puerto Ricans voted to be accepted as a U.S. state?
(a) 60%.
(b) 74%.
(c) 39%
(d) 10%.

2. What was higher among Puerto Ricans in New York than among either blacks or whites?
(a) Education.
(b) Political participation.
(c) Income.
(d) Fertility rates.

3. What mode of travel was first predominantly used in the Puerto Rican migration to the U.S.?
(a) Sailing ships.
(b) Steamships.
(c) Air.
(d) Rail.

4. What does the typical Chinese immigrant in the U.S. do more than others?
(a) Work and study.
(b) Send money home.
(c) Return to their homeland.
(d) Intermarry outside their ethnic group.

5. What ethnicities are combined in Puerto Ricans?
(a) Portugese, African, and Indian.
(b) African, Indian, and British.
(c) Spanish, African, and Indian.
(d) Spanish, Indian, and Portugese.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name for a middleman who bought and sold indentured servants?

2. What was the Six Companies?

3. What important social change did Germans bring to the mainstream culture?

4. What was a "redemptioner"?

5. Why have the Chinese been called "the Jews of Asia?"

(see the answer key)

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