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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 is the "diaspora"?
(a) The gathering of the Jews to the new nation of Israel.
(b) The discrimination against Jews.
(c) The immigration of the Jews to the United States.
(d) The dispersion of the Jews throughout the world.

2. What kind of work provided a start for most wealthy American Jewish families?
(a) Unskilled labor.
(b) Manufacturing.
(c) Farming.
(d) Peddling.

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

4. Which ethnic group got along best with the Indians?
(a) British.
(b) Scotch-Irish.
(c) Celtic Irish.
(d) Germans.

5. What is the largest single ethnic group in the U.S.?
(a) Irish.
(b) Italian.
(c) British.
(d) Mexican.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which ethnic group has the highest fertility rates?

2. How did German Jews regard themselves?

3. How many years did a German indentured servant typically have to work to pay off his transportation to America?

4. What did the term "ghetto" originally mean?

5. What kinds of skills did the Irish develop under an enemy government?

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