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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter V, The Italians.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How did the system of tenant farming undermine Irish initiative?
(a) All improvements would be reversed.
(b) No improvements were permitted.
(c) All improvements belonged to the landowner.
(d) All improvements were heavily taxed.

3. What percentage of Italian immigrants were agricultural laborers?
(a) 50%
(b) 97%
(c) 77%.
(d) 25%.

4. What was the primary loyalty of southern Italians in the 20th century?
(a) The family.
(b) The church.
(c) Country.
(d) Personal morality.

5. Which group of Jews in New York were more established and wealthier?
(a) Russian Jews.
(b) Downtown Jews.
(c) Uptown Jews.
(d) Yiddish-speaking Jews.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where did most American Jews originate?

3. By the end of the 19th century, who controlled 2/3 of the labor done in New York City?

4. How did German Jews regard themselves?

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

(see the answer key)

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