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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. Which group represents the most dramatic example of upward mobility among immigrants?
(a) The Polish.
(b) The illiterate.
(c) Slaves.
(d) The Irish.

2. For Japanese schoolchildren in the U.S., academic success was a matter of family ______________.
(a) Honor.
(b) Responsibility.
(c) Interest.
(d) Loyalty.

3. How did German Jews regard themselves?
(a) Jews from Germany.
(b) Hebrews from Europe.
(c) Jewish Americans.
(d) Germans of the Hebrew faith.

4. What was the name for a middleman who bought and sold indentured servants?
(a) Soul driver.
(b) Coyote.
(c) Simon Legree.
(d) Slave driver.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. With which immigrant group did the Italians have the most conflict?

2. In California, Japanese immigrants initiated what two business models?

3. What advantages did early Irish immigrants have over others?

4. Where did most American Jews originate?

5. What was the occupation of the German immigrants who landed in St. Louis and Milwaukee?

(see the answer key)

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