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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter XI, Implications.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is "human capital"?
(a) A network of contacts.
(b) Family and friends.
(c) Health, wealth, and wisdom.
(d) Values, attitudes, skills, and contacts.

2. In California, Japanese immigrants initiated what two business models?
(a) Market gardens and ornamental horticulture.
(b) Restaurants and dance academies.
(c) Contract gardening and produce markets.
(d) Language schools and bakeries.

3. Japanese pieceworkers earned ____________ than whites doing the same work.
(a) Less.
(b) More.
(c) More rapidly.
(d) More gradually.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which group of Jews in New York were more established and wealthier?

2. How many states in the U.S. were originally part of Mexico?

3. What kind of work provided a start for most wealthy American Jewish families?

4. Most slaves worked in the farming of what product?

5. What distinguishes refugee groups of immigrants?

(see the answer key)

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