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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What diseases plagued the Irish living in tenements?
(a) Typhoid fever and smallpox.
(b) Cholera and tuberculosis.
(c) Tuberculosis and typhoid fever.
(d) Smallpox and cholera.

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

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

4. During the decades surrounding the beginning of the 20th century, what proportion of Eastern European Jews moved to the United States?
(a) One-tenth.
(b) One-eighth.
(c) One-fifth.
(d) One-third.

5. Where did most American Jews originate?
(a) Eastern Europe.
(b) Turkey.
(c) Israel.
(d) China.

Short Answer Questions

1. Japanese pieceworkers earned ____________ than whites doing the same work.

2. What was unique among immigrant groups about Chinese population size in the U.S.?

3. Which group formed the largest migration to America in the 19th century?

4. What is the "ghetto crouch?"

5. Why have the Chinese been called "the Jews of Asia?"

(see the answer key)

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