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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. What area in the United States contained the greatest number of Jews ever assembled in one place on earth?
(a) Manhattan.
(b) Philadelphia.
(c) Boston.
(d) Brooklyn.

2. How many people died of starvation or illness during the Great Famine of the 1840s in Ireland?
(a) One million.
(b) Five million.
(c) Five hundred thousand.
(d) Two hundred thousand.

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

4. Discrimination against Irish workers was exemplified in the phrase, "No Irish need ____________."
(a) Apply.
(b) Enter.
(c) Purchase.
(d) Venture.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The longer the journey by ship took, the _______________ the people became.

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

3. How long did it take to cross the Atlantic in a steamship?

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

5. What percentage of the population is the largest single ethnic group?

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