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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 early 20th century occupation was 90% done by Italians?
(a) Bootblacking.
(b) Construction.
(c) Mining.
(d) Ragpicking.

2. On what basis were Japanese immigrants to the U.S. preselected by the Japanese government?
(a) Health, character and willingness to work.
(b) Desire for adventure.
(c) Tired and poor.
(d) Criminal tendencies.

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

4. What kinds of skills did the Irish develop under an enemy government?
(a) Spying.
(b) Self-improvement.
(c) Organizing and circumventing government.
(d) Guerilla warfare.

5. In their own land, the Irish were a _________________ people.
(a) Conquering.
(b) Conquered.
(c) Free.
(d) Independent.

Short Answer Questions

1. How had most of the Scotch-Irish financed their immigration?

2. After the 1906 earthquake, when 10,000 Japanese were left homeless, how many applied for public relief?

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

4. What was a "picture bride"?

5. At the turn of the century, what was the population density of the lower East Side in New York?

(see the answer key)

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