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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what field did the Irish immigrants to America achieve their first successes?
(a) Politics.
(b) The arts.
(c) Cuisine.
(d) Science.

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

3. Where did the majority of Celtic Irish congregate?
(a) The urban Northeast.
(b) The rural North.
(c) The urban Southeast.
(d) The rural South.

4. What is the "diaspora"?
(a) The immigration of the Jews to the United States.
(b) The dispersion of the Jews throughout the world.
(c) The gathering of the Jews to the new nation of Israel.
(d) The discrimination against Jews.

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

6. Which group of Italian immigrants were at the bottom of their social scale?
(a) Sicilians.
(b) Romans.
(c) Venetians.
(d) Tuscans.

7. What advantages did early Irish immigrants have over others?
(a) They had skills for industrialization.
(b) They had business acumen and education.
(c) They spoke English and many were literate.
(d) They were hard workers and used to urban life.

8. What was a "redemptioner"?
(a) A German immigrant who expected relatives to pay his way.
(b) A slave.
(c) A purchaser of indentures.
(d) An indentured servant.

9. What was the average life expectancy of an Irish immigrant in the 19th century?
(a) Eighteen.
(b) Forty.
(c) Fifty-five.
(d) Thirty.

10. What Irish product undermined the welfare of Irish people?
(a) Sabotage.
(b) Poetry.
(c) Potatoes.
(d) Whiskey.

11. Who developed the term "kike" to refer to Eastern European Jews in the U.S.?
(a) Blacks.
(b) The British.
(c) German Jews.
(d) The Irish.

12. What law helped establish the southern Italian crime syndicates?
(a) Pro-immigration law.
(b) Anti-immigration law.
(c) Gambling restrictions.
(d) Prohibition.

13. What early 20th century occupation was 90% done by Italians?
(a) Construction.
(b) Ragpicking.
(c) Bootblacking.
(d) Mining.

14. During the decades surrounding the beginning of the 20th century, what proportion of Eastern European Jews moved to the United States?
(a) One-tenth.
(b) One-third.
(c) One-fifth.
(d) One-eighth.

15. What percentage of Italian immigrants were agricultural laborers?
(a) 77%.
(b) 25%.
(c) 50%
(d) 97%

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of work provided a start for most wealthy American Jewish families?

2. What industry occupied nearly half of Russian Jews prior to their emigration to the U.S.?

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

4. What diseases plagued the Irish living in tenements?

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

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