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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 kind of work provided a start for most wealthy American Jewish families?
(a) Unskilled labor.
(b) Peddling.
(c) Farming.
(d) Manufacturing.

2. What percentage of arrests in New York City during the 1850s were made of drunk and disorderly Irishmen?
(a) Fifty percent.
(b) Twenty percent.
(c) Ten percent.
(d) Thirty percent.

3. How did Jews who had survived persecution store their wealth?
(a) Home furnishings.
(b) Expensive clothes.
(c) Works of art.
(d) Gold and jewelry.

4. What advantage did European Jewish immigrants have in arriving in the United States?
(a) They were already accustomed to a rural environment.
(b) They already spoke English.
(c) They were already urbanized.
(d) They were already skilled farmers.

5. Chapter VIII states that the cruelest slave masters were of what nationality?
(a) Jamaican.
(b) African.
(c) Arab.
(d) American.

Short Answer Questions

1. In New York, what percentage of Chinese residents accepted federal aid during the Great Depression?

2. During the decades surrounding the beginning of the 20th century, what proportion of Eastern European Jews moved to the United States?

3. What drug was introduced in the U.S. by Chinese immigrants?

4. What kind of governmental structure did most Puerto Ricans vote to continue?

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

(see the answer key)

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