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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. What vice did Jewish immigrants almost universally avoid?
(a) Organized crime.
(b) Pornography.
(c) Gambling.
(d) Alcoholism.

2. Which ethnic group has the highest fertility rates?
(a) Blacks.
(b) Polish Americans.
(c) Mexican-Americans.
(d) Chinese Americans.

3. The "penal laws" imposed by the British on the Irish were intended to keep the Irish in what situation?
(a) Subjugated and impoverished.
(b) Impoverished and frightened.
(c) Educated and healthy.
(d) Upwardly mobile.

4. What percentage of arrests in New York City during the 1850s were made of drunk and disorderly Irishmen?
(a) Fifty percent.
(b) Twenty percent.
(c) Thirty percent.
(d) Ten percent.

5. Before steamships, to what was sea travel for the immigrants directly tied?
(a) Piracy.
(b) Weather conditions.
(c) Trade.
(d) Occupations.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the occupation of the German immigrants who landed in St. Louis and Milwaukee?

2. In their own land, the Irish were a _________________ people.

3. What crop were most slaves in the U.S. producing?

4. What language did German Jews speak?

5. Which group was the most isolated of the early German settlers?

(see the answer key)

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