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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was a "picture bride"?
(a) A perfectly beautiful bride.
(b) A bride from the U.S. accepted on the basis of a photograph.
(c) A bride who spoke no English.
(d) A bride from Japan accepted on the basis of a photograph.

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

3. Most Japanese immigrants in the 19th century were young men from what kind of background?
(a) Industry.
(b) Trade.
(c) Farming.
(d) Transportation.

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

5. What was the Six Companies?
(a) A Chinese crime syndicate.
(b) A Chinese immigration association.
(c) A Chinese gang.
(d) A Chinese mutual aid association.

6. What was a Pachuco?
(a) A Mexican gang member.
(b) A Mexican elected official?
(c) A Mexican dance.
(d) A Mexican from the state of Pachuca.

7. How did Chinese immigrants cope with discrimination?
(a) Withdrawal and inconspicuousness.
(b) Fear and intimidation.
(c) Aggression and violence.
(d) Pugnacity and toughness.

8. Mexican immigrants rank highest in what index?
(a) Education.
(b) Fertility.
(c) Income.
(d) Reverse migration.

9. What vices were commonly available in Chinatown?
(a) Gambling and drinking.
(b) Theft and murder.
(c) Drinking and smoking.
(d) Prostitution, drugs, and gambling.

10. Under the Gentleman's Agreement, ____________limited the number of Japanese immigrants to the U.S.
(a) Japan.
(b) An international tribunal.
(c) The United States.
(d) The job market.

11. Why did many Japanese property owners in the U.S. put title to the land in the names of their children?
(a) They children could attract better marriage partners.
(b) The children could avoid excessive taxation.
(c) The children were born in the U.S. and not subject to the Alien Land Law.
(d) They hoped for greater prosperity for their children.

12. How does the Chinese America crime rate compare to other immigrant groups?
(a) It is unusually high.
(b) It is comparable to the mainstream of society.
(c) It is unusually low.
(d) It is exceptionally erratic, changing every year.

13. Most slaves worked in the farming of what product?
(a) Tobacco.
(b) Wheat.
(c) Sugar.
(d) Cotton.

14. What does the typical Chinese immigrant in the U.S. do more than others?
(a) Intermarry outside their ethnic group.
(b) Send money home.
(c) Work and study.
(d) Return to their homeland.

15. Why are the Hong Kong youth gangs a threat to Chinatowns?
(a) They frighten away tourists.
(b) They cause property destruction.
(c) They intimidate business owners.
(d) They cause loss of life.

Short Answer Questions

1. What drug was introduced in the U.S. by Chinese immigrants?

2. How many states in the U.S. were originally part of Mexico?

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

4. What was higher among Puerto Ricans in New York than among either blacks or whites?

5. What gave free persons of color a head start over other blacks?

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