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

2. What did the term "ghetto" originally mean?
(a) A walled, gated Jewish community.
(b) An impoverished area of the city.
(c) A rich area of the city.
(d) A prison.

3. What was a "Hessian"?
(a) German communitarians.
(b) German soldiers recruited to fight in the Revolutionary War.
(c) German government officials.
(d) German pacifists.

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

5. What caused repeated conflicts between the Scotch-Irish and the Celtic Irish immigrants who arrived later?
(a) Religion.
(b) Slavery.
(c) Education.
(d) Politics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the occupation of the German immigrants who landed in St. Louis and Milwaukee?

2. What language did German Jews speak?

3. Why was American farming foreign to the Irish immigrants?

4. At the turn of the century, what was the population density of the lower East Side in New York?

5. How did German Jews regard themselves?

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