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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the primary loyalty of southern Italians in the 20th century?
(a) Country.
(b) The church.
(c) Personal morality.
(d) The family.

2. How did the system of tenant farming undermine Irish initiative?
(a) All improvements would be reversed.
(b) All improvements belonged to the landowner.
(c) All improvements were heavily taxed.
(d) No improvements were permitted.

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

4. In what area did 19th century Irish consider themselves superior to Germans?
(a) Americanization.
(b) Sports.
(c) Religion.
(d) Education.

5. Many Japanese immigrants were successful entrepreneurs because of their ability to _________________.
(a) Share profits.
(b) Calculate costs.
(c) Accept risk.
(d) Foreseen trends.

Short Answer Questions

1. Discrimination against Irish workers was exemplified in the phrase, "No Irish need ____________."

2. What percentage of arrests in New York City during the 1850s were made of drunk and disorderly Irishmen?

3. At the turn of the century, what was the population density of the lower East Side in New York?

4. How many people died of starvation or illness during the Great Famine of the 1840s in Ireland?

5. Where did most American Jews originate?

(see the answer key)

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