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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The most affluent groups have experienced ________________ discrimination.
(a) About the same.
(b) More.
(c) No.
(d) Less.

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

3. What advantages did early Irish immigrants have over others?
(a) They spoke English and many were literate.
(b) They were hard workers and used to urban life.
(c) They had skills for industrialization.
(d) They had business acumen and education.

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

5. What kinds of skills did the Irish develop under an enemy government?
(a) Guerilla warfare.
(b) Spying.
(c) Organizing and circumventing government.
(d) Self-improvement.

Short Answer Questions

1. Before steamships, to what was sea travel for the immigrants directly tied?

2. How much of the arable land in Ireland was used for growing potatoes before the famine?

3. The highest fertility rates are found in groups with the ________________ incomes.

4. How did the system of tenant farming undermine Irish initiative?

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

(see the answer key)

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