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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 kind of work provided a start for most wealthy American Jewish families?
(a) Manufacturing.
(b) Farming.
(c) Peddling.
(d) Unskilled labor.

2. In what field did the Irish immigrants to America achieve their first successes?
(a) Politics.
(b) The arts.
(c) Science.
(d) Cuisine.

3. With acculturation, IQ rates tend to:
(a) Remain constant.
(b) Become insignificant.
(c) Fall.
(d) Rise.

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

5. What system did Italian immigrants use to finance business ventures?
(a) Credit unions.
(b) Mutual aid societies.
(c) Crime syndicates.
(d) Banks.

Short Answer Questions

1. In their own land, the Irish were a _________________ people.

2. How many people died of starvation or illness during the Great Famine of the 1840s in Ireland?

3. How did the system of tenant farming undermine Irish initiative?

4. How many of the emigrants from the potato famine died en route to America in 1847?

5. What does Sowell determine transient immigrants are less likely to do?

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