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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. Which group represents the most dramatic example of upward mobility among immigrants?
(a) The Irish.
(b) The Polish.
(c) The illiterate.
(d) Slaves.

2. Where did the majority of Celtic Irish congregate?
(a) The rural South.
(b) The urban Northeast.
(c) The urban Southeast.
(d) The rural North.

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

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

5. What was the occupation of the German immigrants who landed in St. Louis and Milwaukee?
(a) Construction.
(b) Farming.
(c) Brewing beer.
(d) Peddling.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What caused repeated conflicts between the Scotch-Irish and the Celtic Irish immigrants who arrived later?

3. Discrimination against Irish workers was exemplified in the phrase, "No Irish need ____________."

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

5. With acculturation, IQ rates tend to:

(see the answer key)

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