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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter IV, The Jews.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was the name for a middleman who bought and sold indentured servants?
(a) Slave driver.
(b) Soul driver.
(c) Simon Legree.
(d) Coyote.

3. What was the "Pale"?
(a) The area where Russian Jews were not allowed to live.
(b) The area where Russian Jews went for recreation.
(c) The area where Russian Jews were imprisoned.
(d) The area where Russian Jews were allowed to live.

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

5. With acculturation, IQ rates tend to:
(a) Fall.
(b) Remain constant.
(c) Become insignificant.
(d) Rise.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who developed the term "kike" to refer to Eastern European Jews in the U.S.?

2. Who were the "Know-Nothings"?

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

4. Which ethnic group has the highest fertility rates?

5. Discrimination against Irish workers was exemplified in the phrase, "No Irish need ____________."

(see the answer key)

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