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

2. What was the name for a middleman who bought and sold indentured servants?
(a) Slave driver.
(b) Coyote.
(c) Soul driver.
(d) Simon Legree.

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

4. What was the "Pale"?
(a) The area where Russian Jews were not allowed to live.
(b) The area where Russian Jews were imprisoned.
(c) The area where Russian Jews were allowed to live.
(d) The area where Russian Jews went for recreation.

5. What were early German immigrants able to do more thoroughly than others?
(a) Invent useful machinery.
(b) Develop social networks.
(c) Govern themselves and others.
(d) Clear frontier land and make it productive.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How did Europeans treat Jews as they became the only non-Christians on the continent?

3. Which group formed the largest migration to America in the 19th century?

4. What area in the United States contained the greatest number of Jews ever assembled in one place on earth?

5. Why did farmers in southern Italy live on hillsides?

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