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

2. What was the average life expectancy of an Irish immigrant in the 19th century?
(a) Forty.
(b) Fifty-five.
(c) Eighteen.
(d) Thirty.

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

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

5. What was the occupation of the majority of Irish immigrants in the 19th century?
(a) Unskilled labor.
(b) Glass blowing.
(c) Manufacturing.
(d) Farming.

Short Answer Questions

1. The "penal laws" imposed by the British on the Irish were intended to keep the Irish in what situation?

2. How did German Jews regard themselves?

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

4. Where did the majority of Celtic Irish congregate?

5. What vice did Jewish immigrants almost universally avoid?

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