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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the Bracero Program of 1942?
(a) Deportation of illegal Mexican workers.
(b) Citizenship programs for illegal Mexican residents.
(c) Amnesty for illegal Mexican residents.
(d) Legal residence for contract Mexican workers.

2. What percentage of the population is the largest single ethnic group?
(a) 75%.
(b) 15%.
(c) 52%.
(d) 47%.

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. How many of the emigrants from the potato famine died en route to America in 1847?
(a) Five percent.
(b) Ten percent.
(c) Twenty percent.
(d) Fifty percent.

5. How did the system of tenant farming undermine Irish initiative?
(a) All improvements belonged to the landowner.
(b) All improvements would be reversed.
(c) No improvements were permitted.
(d) All improvements were heavily taxed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a "coyote"?

2. What is "human capital"?

3. What distinguishes refugee groups of immigrants?

4. What caused repeated conflicts between the Scotch-Irish and the Celtic Irish immigrants who arrived later?

5. Where do most people of Irish ancestry live?

(see the answer key)

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