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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter IX, The Puerto Ricans.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Chinese immigrants finance business startups?
(a) Theft.
(b) Borrowing from employers.
(c) Maintaining high credit ratings.
(d) Rotating credit associations.

2. Chapter VIII states that the cruelest slave masters were of what nationality?
(a) American.
(b) Arab.
(c) Jamaican.
(d) African.

3. How much of the arable land in Ireland was used for growing potatoes before the famine?
(a) One-sixth.
(b) One-fourth.
(c) One-half.
(d) One-tenth.

4. The generation gap between first and second generation Japanese immigrants was caused by _____________ marriages.
(a) Multiple.
(b) Belated.
(c) Rare.
(d) Long-distance.

5. How did the Pennsylvania Dutch regard politics and government?
(a) With distrust and disinterest.
(b) With great interest.
(c) With expectations and hope.
(d) With confidence and trust.

Short Answer Questions

1. What virtue was already ingrained in European Jews when they arrived?

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

3. How had most of the Scotch-Irish financed their immigration?

4. Which ethnic group has the highest fertility rates?

5. What early 20th century occupation was 90% done by Italians?

(see the answer key)

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