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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 percentage of immigrants from southern Italy returned home?
(a) 40%.
(b) 10%.
(c) 90%.
(d) 70%

2. Under the laws of the Manchu dynasty, what could Chinese men not return to China without?
(a) Their job training.
(b) Their savings.
(c) Their wives.
(d) Their queues.

3. In what area did 19th century Germans consider themselves superior to Irish?
(a) Sports.
(b) Religion.
(c) Education.
(d) Americanization.

4. How did Chinese immigrants cope with discrimination?
(a) Withdrawal and inconspicuousness.
(b) Fear and intimidation.
(c) Pugnacity and toughness.
(d) Aggression and violence.

5. What was one tragic result of the U.S. government's restrictions on Chinese immigration?
(a) A high rate of suicide among Chinese men.
(b) A high rate of Chinese returning to China.
(c) A low return on Chinese investment.
(d) A low Chinese birth rate.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Europeans treat Jews as they became the only non-Christians on the continent?

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

3. Many Japanese immigrants were successful entrepreneurs because of their ability to _________________.

4. What kinds of skills did the Irish develop under an enemy government?

5. For Japanese schoolchildren in the U.S., academic success was a matter of family ______________.

(see the answer key)

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