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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 educational reform did Germans propose and support?
(a) Graduate schools.
(b) Kindergartens.
(c) Universities.
(d) Preschools.

2. How many of the emigrants from the potato famine died en route to America in 1847?
(a) Five percent.
(b) Ten percent.
(c) Twenty percent.
(d) Fifty percent.

3. How did German Jews regard themselves?
(a) Jewish Americans.
(b) Jews from Germany.
(c) Germans of the Hebrew faith.
(d) Hebrews from Europe.

4. How many people died of starvation or illness during the Great Famine of the 1840s in Ireland?
(a) Five hundred thousand.
(b) One million.
(c) Two hundred thousand.
(d) Five million.

5. Japanese pieceworkers earned ____________ than whites doing the same work.
(a) More gradually.
(b) Less.
(c) More rapidly.
(d) More.

Short Answer Questions

1. With which immigrant group did the Italians have the most conflict?

2. What was the name for a middleman who bought and sold indentured servants?

3. What did German immigrants retain whether in urban or rural settings?

4. What were early German immigrants able to do more thoroughly than others?

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

(see the answer key)

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