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

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

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

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

5. How did the system of tenant farming undermine Irish initiative?
(a) All improvements were heavily taxed.
(b) All improvements belonged to the landowner.
(c) No improvements were permitted.
(d) All improvements would be reversed.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Jews who had survived persecution store their wealth?

2. What tools have Jews traditionally used to respond to adversity?

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

4. How long was the voyage to America in a sailing vessel?

5. What is the "diaspora"?

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