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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter VII, The Japanese.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What advantages does northern Italy have over southern Italy, where most emigrants lived?
(a) Access to trading centers.
(b) Schools and colleges.
(c) Access to seaports.
(d) Adequate rainfall and irrigation systems.

2. The "penal laws" imposed by the British on the Irish were intended to keep the Irish in what situation?
(a) Educated and healthy.
(b) Subjugated and impoverished.
(c) Upwardly mobile.
(d) Impoverished and frightened.

3. How had most of the Scotch-Irish financed their immigration?
(a) They formed credit unions among themselves.
(b) They were sent with money from home.
(c) They became indentured servants.
(d) They worked as apprentices.

4. With which immigrant group did the Italians have the most conflict?
(a) Germans.
(b) Jews.
(c) Irish.
(d) Chinese.

5. The generation gap between first and second generation Japanese immigrants was caused by _____________ marriages.
(a) Long-distance.
(b) Multiple.
(c) Rare.
(d) Belated.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the term "ghetto" originally mean?

2. For Japanese schoolchildren in the U.S., academic success was a matter of family ______________.

3. How did the Japanese crime rate compare with that of other immigrant communities?

4. What Irish product undermined the welfare of Irish people?

5. How did northern and southern Italian immigrants regard each other?

(see the answer key)

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