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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. Who were the first free persons of colors?
(a) Native-born blacks.
(b) Freed slaves.
(c) Indentured servants who had completed their indentures.
(d) Blacks from other countries.

2. How did Jews who had survived persecution store their wealth?
(a) Gold and jewelry.
(b) Expensive clothes.
(c) Works of art.
(d) Home furnishings.

3. Why did farmers in southern Italy live on hillsides?
(a) To avoid malaria.
(b) Because arable land was in the hills.
(c) To get a better view.
(d) To hide from invaders.

4. With which immigrant group did the Italians have the most conflict?
(a) Jews.
(b) Chinese.
(c) Germans.
(d) Irish.

5. How did Europeans treat Jews as they became the only non-Christians on the continent?
(a) They were persecuted, massacred and expelled.
(b) They were welcomed and venerated.
(c) They were quietly disliked.
(d) They were supported and helped.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was a "Hessian"?

2. Under the laws of the Manchu dynasty, what could Chinese men not return to China without?

3. Why was American farming foreign to the Irish immigrants?

4. What diseases plagued the Irish living in tenements?

5. In what area did 19th century Irish consider themselves superior to Germans?

(see the answer key)

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