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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter XI, Implications.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What percentage of white families in the South owned no slaves at all?
(a) 50%.
(b) 25%.
(c) 15%.
(d) 75%.

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

4. What does Sowell determine transient immigrants are less likely to do?
(a) Make friends and join social groups.
(b) Learn the language and become citizens.
(c) Work hard.
(d) Establish businesses and save money.

5. What kind of governmental structure did most Puerto Ricans vote to continue?
(a) Commonwealth status.
(b) Independent nationhood.
(c) Status as a territory.
(d) Statehood.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a sojourner?

2. Before steamships, to what was sea travel for the immigrants directly tied?

3. Which ethnic groups were successful in the U.S. in spite of avoiding politics?

4. The "penal laws" imposed by the British on the Irish were intended to keep the Irish in what situation?

5. Why are the Hong Kong youth gangs a threat to Chinatowns?

(see the answer key)

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