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

2. How were Japanese immigrants treated initially?
(a) They were welcomed.
(b) They were tolerated.
(c) They were hated.
(d) They were rejected.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In California, Japanese immigrants initiated what two business models?

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

4. The "penal laws" imposed by the British on the Irish were intended to keep the Irish in what situation?

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

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