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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. Before steamships, to what was sea travel for the immigrants directly tied?
(a) Weather conditions.
(b) Trade.
(c) Piracy.
(d) Occupations.

2. What was higher among Puerto Ricans in New York than among either blacks or whites?
(a) Political participation.
(b) Education.
(c) Fertility rates.
(d) Income.

3. Who did Puerto Rican nationalists attempt to assassinate in 1952?
(a) President Truman.
(b) President Eisenhower.
(c) President Roosevelt.
(d) President Nixon.

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

5. Why did lighter skin become overrepresented among achieving blacks?
(a) Lighter skin leads to greater ambition.
(b) Lighter skin means higher intelligence.
(c) Lighter skin is better looking.
(d) Free persons of color had more white ancestors.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the occupation of the majority of Irish immigrants in the 19th century?

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

3. Blacks are the only ethnic group that came to the U.S. under what condition?

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

5. What did the term "ghetto" originally mean?

(see the answer key)

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