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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What caused repeated conflicts between the Scotch-Irish and the Celtic Irish immigrants who arrived later?
(a) Education.
(b) Politics.
(c) Slavery.
(d) Religion.

2. How many of the emigrants from the potato famine died en route to America in 1847?
(a) Ten percent.
(b) Twenty percent.
(c) Fifty percent.
(d) Five percent.

3. The most affluent groups have experienced ________________ discrimination.
(a) About the same.
(b) Less.
(c) More.
(d) No.

4. Discrimination against Irish workers was exemplified in the phrase, "No Irish need ____________."
(a) Apply.
(b) Enter.
(c) Purchase.
(d) Venture.

5. What Irish product undermined the welfare of Irish people?
(a) Sabotage.
(b) Whiskey.
(c) Poetry.
(d) Potatoes.

Short Answer Questions

1. With acculturation, IQ rates tend to:

2. What percentage of the population is the largest single ethnic group?

3. What is the most affluent ethnic group in the U.S.?

4. The "penal laws" imposed by the British on the Irish were intended to keep the Irish in what situation?

5. The longer the journey by ship took, the _______________ the people became.

(see the answer key)

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