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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What percentage of Puerto Ricans voted for independent nationhood?
(a) One percent.
(b) 10%.
(c) 39%.
(d) 60%.
2. What was a "tong?"
(a) A Chinese overlord.
(b) A Chinese riddle.
(c) A tool for Chinese cooking.
(d) A Chinese secret society.
3. What percentage of Puerto Ricans voted to be accepted as a U.S. state?
(a) 74%.
(b) 10%.
(c) 39%
(d) 60%.
4. Why have the Chinese been called "the Jews of Asia?"
(a) Their success in business has been resented.
(b) They have been universally excluded.
(c) They have been universally welcomed.
(d) Their success in business has been applauded.
5. Most Japanese immigrants in the 19th century were young men from what kind of background?
(a) Farming.
(b) Industry.
(c) Trade.
(d) Transportation.
Short Answer Questions
1. What was the Bracero Program of 1942?
2. What does the typical Chinese immigrant in the U.S. do more than others?
3. Where was the first Puerto Rican community in New York?
4. Which religion forbade the owning of slaves and produced many abolitionists?
5. How many states in the U.S. were originally part of Mexico?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did Japan view the United States in the 19th century?
2. Why was marriage among slaves encouraged by slave owners?
3. In what ways did geography contribute to the perpetuation of slavery?
4. What was unique about the slave population of the United States when compared with slaves in other countries?
5. How have Chinese immigrants traditionally been received in host countries?
6. Why did most Chinese immigrants work in laundries and restaurants in the U.S.?
7. What effect did Chinese immigration to the United States have on Japanese immigrants?
8. What obstacles to progress were faced by emancipated slaves?
9. What are some signs of the slow acculturation of Mexican immigrants?
10. Why is it particularly difficult to measure advancement in the immigrant Puerto Rican community?
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