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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 distinguishes Italian emigration during the 20th century?
(a) More immigrants return to Italy than leave it.
(b) All of the emigration is to the U.S.
(c) It is the slowest exodus from a single nation.
(d) It is the largest exodus from a single nation.

2. The highest fertility rates are found in groups with the ________________ incomes.
(a) Most stable.
(b) Lowest.
(c) Fastest-growing.
(d) Highest.

3. What Irish product undermined the welfare of Irish people?
(a) Sabotage.
(b) Potatoes.
(c) Whiskey.
(d) Poetry.

4. What industry did most German immigrants pursue?
(a) Manufacturing.
(b) Publishing.
(c) Farming.
(d) Transportation.

5. Which ethnic group has the highest fertility rates?
(a) Polish Americans.
(b) Mexican-Americans.
(c) Chinese Americans.
(d) Blacks.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Nat Turner lead?

2. What vice did Jewish immigrants almost universally avoid?

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

4. Which group of Italian immigrants were at the bottom of their social scale?

5. What was one significant difference between slavery in the U.S. and slavery throughout history, as identified by Sowell?

(see the answer key)

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