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

2. How did German Jews regard themselves?
(a) Jewish Americans.
(b) Germans of the Hebrew faith.
(c) Hebrews from Europe.
(d) Jews from Germany.

3. What was a "Hessian"?
(a) German government officials.
(b) German soldiers recruited to fight in the Revolutionary War.
(c) German pacifists.
(d) German communitarians.

4. What does the typical Chinese immigrant in the U.S. do more than others?
(a) Intermarry outside their ethnic group.
(b) Send money home.
(c) Work and study.
(d) Return to their homeland.

5. Who did Puerto Rican nationalists attempt to assassinate in 1952?
(a) President Roosevelt.
(b) President Nixon.
(c) President Truman.
(d) President Eisenhower.

Short Answer Questions

1. What percentage of Puerto Ricans voted for independent nationhood?

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

3. What was a "hatchet man"?

4. Why are the Hong Kong youth gangs a threat to Chinatowns?

5. By 1970, which city had the most Puerto Ricans?

(see the answer key)

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