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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What indicates slow acculturation?
(a) Low rates of application for citizenship.
(b) Long vacations in the home country.
(c) Sending money home.
(d) Rapid language acquisition.

2. How did many of the Japanese regard the United States during the 19th century?
(a) As an "earthly paradise."
(b) As a "deprived nation."
(c) As a "hell on earth."
(d) As the "home of our enemies."

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

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

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

6. The generation gap between first and second generation Japanese immigrants was caused by _____________ marriages.
(a) Belated.
(b) Rare.
(c) Multiple.
(d) Long-distance.

7. How many states in the U.S. were originally part of Mexico?
(a) Ten.
(b) Fifty.
(c) Five.
(d) Two.

8. What mode of travel was first predominantly used in the Puerto Rican migration to the U.S.?
(a) Steamships.
(b) Sailing ships.
(c) Air.
(d) Rail.

9. What ethnicities are combined in Puerto Ricans?
(a) Spanish, Indian, and Portugese.
(b) Spanish, African, and Indian.
(c) African, Indian, and British.
(d) Portugese, African, and Indian.

10. Why have the Chinese been called "the Jews of Asia?"
(a) They have been universally welcomed.
(b) They have been universally excluded.
(c) Their success in business has been applauded.
(d) Their success in business has been resented.

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

12. Many Japanese immigrants were successful entrepreneurs because of their ability to _________________.
(a) Calculate costs.
(b) Foreseen trends.
(c) Share profits.
(d) Accept risk.

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

14. What was one result of social isolation and fragmentation in Africa?
(a) Cultural interaction.
(b) Peace and quiet.
(c) Political and military vulnerability.
(d) Community development.

15. As those with different views left the South, what changed in the southern population?
(a) It became aware of its inconsistencies.
(b) It became better educated and more worldly.
(c) It became more liberal.
(d) It became more conformist and intolerant.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was one significant difference between slavery in the U.S. and slavery throughout history, as identified by Sowell?

2. What "pushed" Mexicans to leave Mexico in the early 20th century?

3. Which Western country imported the most slaves?

4. For Japanese schoolchildren in the U.S., academic success was a matter of family ______________.

5. Why did many Japanese property owners in the U.S. put title to the land in the names of their children?

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