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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. Most Japanese immigrants in the 19th century were young men from what kind of background?
(a) Transportation.
(b) Industry.
(c) Trade.
(d) Farming.

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

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

4. What percentage of immigrants from southern Italy returned home?
(a) 40%.
(b) 90%.
(c) 10%.
(d) 70%

5. The "penal laws" imposed by the British on the Irish were intended to keep the Irish in what situation?
(a) Subjugated and impoverished.
(b) Educated and healthy.
(c) Upwardly mobile.
(d) Impoverished and frightened.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sowell determine transient immigrants are less likely to do?

2. In what field did the Irish immigrants to America achieve their first successes?

3. In what area did 19th century Irish consider themselves superior to Germans?

4. How much of the arable land in Ireland was used for growing potatoes before the famine?

5. The generation gap between first and second generation Japanese immigrants was caused by _____________ marriages.

(see the answer key)

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