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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 is the "diaspora"?
(a) The discrimination against Jews.
(b) The immigration of the Jews to the United States.
(c) The dispersion of the Jews throughout the world.
(d) The gathering of the Jews to the new nation of Israel.

2. What industry occupied nearly half of Russian Jews prior to their emigration to the U.S.?
(a) Transportation.
(b) Clothing production.
(c) Publishing.
(d) Farming.

3. How did Jews who had survived persecution store their wealth?
(a) Expensive clothes.
(b) Works of art.
(c) Home furnishings.
(d) Gold and jewelry.

4. In what field did the Irish immigrants to America achieve their first successes?
(a) Cuisine.
(b) The arts.
(c) Science.
(d) Politics.

5. How did many of the Japanese regard the United States during the 19th century?
(a) As the "home of our enemies."
(b) As an "earthly paradise."
(c) As a "hell on earth."
(d) As a "deprived nation."

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What virtue was already ingrained in European Jews when they arrived?

3. What was a "picture bride"?

4. For Japanese schoolchildren in the U.S., academic success was a matter of family ______________.

5. Why was American farming foreign to the Irish immigrants?

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