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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. How did the Pennsylvania Dutch regard politics and government?
(a) With distrust and disinterest.
(b) With expectations and hope.
(c) With great interest.
(d) With confidence and trust.

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

3. What industry occupied nearly half of Russian Jews prior to their emigration to the U.S.?
(a) Publishing.
(b) Transportation.
(c) Farming.
(d) Clothing production.

4. How long did it take to cross the Atlantic in a steamship?
(a) Ten months.
(b) Two months.
(c) Ten weeks.
(d) Ten days.

5. What crop were most slaves in the U.S. producing?
(a) Vegetables.
(b) Tobacco.
(c) Cotton.
(d) Sugar.

Short Answer Questions

1. What important social change did Germans bring to the mainstream culture?

2. What nationality are the Pennsylvania Dutch?

3. What was the name for a middleman who bought and sold indentured servants?

4. How did German Jews regard themselves?

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

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