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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 is the "diaspora"?
(a) The dispersion of the Jews throughout the world.
(b) The immigration of the Jews to the United States.
(c) The discrimination against Jews.
(d) The gathering of the Jews to the new nation of Israel.

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

3. What nationality are the Pennsylvania Dutch?
(a) Dutch.
(b) German.
(c) French.
(d) Belgian.

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

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

2. How many slaves came to the Western Hemisphere?

3. What is the "ghetto crouch?"

4. Who were the "Know-Nothings"?

5. Under the Gentleman's Agreement, ____________limited the number of Japanese immigrants to the U.S.

(see the answer key)

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