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

2. Why was American farming foreign to the Irish immigrants?
(a) It required different crops.
(b) It required long work days.
(c) It required isolation.
(d) It required larger tracts of land.

3. What diseases plagued the Irish living in tenements?
(a) Typhoid fever and smallpox.
(b) Cholera and tuberculosis.
(c) Tuberculosis and typhoid fever.
(d) Smallpox and cholera.

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

5. For Japanese schoolchildren in the U.S., academic success was a matter of family ______________.
(a) Responsibility.
(b) Interest.
(c) Loyalty.
(d) Honor.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which group of Italian immigrants were at the bottom of their social scale?

3. What tools have Jews traditionally used to respond to adversity?

4. What percentage of immigrants from southern Italy returned home?

5. What advantages did early Irish immigrants have over others?

(see the answer key)

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