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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Chinese immigrants finance business startups?
(a) Rotating credit associations.
(b) Maintaining high credit ratings.
(c) Borrowing from employers.
(d) Theft.

2. How were Japanese immigrants treated initially?
(a) They were rejected.
(b) They were hated.
(c) They were tolerated.
(d) They were welcomed.

3. What percentage of Italian immigrants were agricultural laborers?
(a) 97%
(b) 25%.
(c) 77%.
(d) 50%

4. For Japanese schoolchildren in the U.S., academic success was a matter of family ______________.
(a) Loyalty.
(b) Interest.
(c) Honor.
(d) Responsibility.

5. In what field did the Irish immigrants to America achieve their first successes?
(a) The arts.
(b) Politics.
(c) Science.
(d) Cuisine.

Short Answer Questions

1. What percentage of Puerto Ricans voted to be accepted as a U.S. state?

2. What diseases plagued the Irish living in tenements?

3. Chapter VIII states that the cruelest slave masters were of what nationality?

4. What does the typical Chinese immigrant in the U.S. do more than others?

5. How had most of the Scotch-Irish financed their immigration?

(see the answer key)

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