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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What occupations did Chinese immigrants typically take in the mining camps?
(a) Miners and accountants.
(b) Tailors and saloon keepers.
(c) Cooks and launderers.
(d) Merchants and farmers.

4. 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) They hoped for greater prosperity for their children.
(c) The children were born in the U.S. and not subject to the Alien Land Law.
(d) The children could avoid excessive taxation.

5. Chapter VIII states that the cruelest slave masters were of what nationality?
(a) American.
(b) African.
(c) Arab.
(d) Jamaican.

6. What percentage of Puerto Ricans voted for independent nationhood?
(a) 10%.
(b) 60%.
(c) One percent.
(d) 39%.

7. What was one significant difference between slavery in the U.S. and slavery throughout history, as identified by Sowell?
(a) Slaves had no opportunity to become free in the U.S.
(b) Slaves were farther from home.
(c) Slaves were not educated.
(d) Slavery in a free society is a moral problem.

8. What did the Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision declare that blacks did not have?
(a) Rights white men had to respect.
(b) Rights other blacks had to respect.
(c) The right to be respected.
(d) Any rights at all.

9. Among all ethnic groups in the U.S., Puerto Ricans in 1930 had the highest rate of what factor?
(a) Years of education.
(b) Birth.
(c) Immigration.
(d) Juvenile delinquency.

10. 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 leads to greater ambition.
(d) Lighter skin is better looking.

11. What was one tragic result of the U.S. government's restrictions on Chinese immigration?
(a) A high rate of suicide among Chinese men.
(b) A low Chinese birth rate.
(c) A low return on Chinese investment.
(d) A high rate of Chinese returning to China.

12. How were Japanese immigrants treated initially?
(a) They were tolerated.
(b) They were hated.
(c) They were welcomed.
(d) They were rejected.

13. How many slaves came to the Western Hemisphere?
(a) Twenty million.
(b) One million.
(c) Ten million.
(d) Five million.

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

15. During the Civil War, what percentage of Union troops were black?
(a) 5%.
(b) 10%.
(c) 50%.
(d) 2%.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why have the Chinese been called "the Jews of Asia?"

3. What vices were commonly available in Chinatown?

4. What did the Japanese government do when immigrants to Hawaii were unhappy with working conditions?

5. What was a "picture bride"?

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