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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Which group formed the largest migration to America in the 19th century?
(a) Italians.
(b) Irish.
(c) Jews.
(d) Germans.
2. Before steamships, to what was sea travel for the immigrants directly tied?
(a) Weather conditions.
(b) Trade.
(c) Occupations.
(d) Piracy.
3. In what field did the Irish immigrants to America achieve their first successes?
(a) The arts.
(b) Politics.
(c) Cuisine.
(d) Science.
4. By the end of the 19th century, who controlled 2/3 of the labor done in New York City?
(a) White collar investors.
(b) Italian padrone.
(c) Labor unions.
(d) Poltical bosses.
5. What area in the United States contained the greatest number of Jews ever assembled in one place on earth?
(a) Boston.
(b) Philadelphia.
(c) Brooklyn.
(d) Manhattan.
Short Answer Questions
1. What language did German Jews speak?
2. What law helped establish the southern Italian crime syndicates?
3. What is the "ghetto crouch?"
4. Which group represents the most dramatic example of upward mobility among immigrants?
5. What caused repeated conflicts between the Scotch-Irish and the Celtic Irish immigrants who arrived later?
Short Essay Questions
1. What factors contributed to Irish immigrant workers' lack of initiative?
2. What is culturally and linguistically unique about the size of the United States?
3. What is "amoral familism"?
4. How were the Irish immigrants of the 19th century stereotyped?
5. During the 19th and early 20th centuries, how did Italian literacy compare with the rest of Europe?
6. What geographical advantages does northern Italy have over southern Italy?
7. How were the German immigrants characterized?
8. Why did the Jews in various countries not fight back against discrimination?
9. How had the Jews historically been treated in Europe?
10. Why were the Jews a more diverse group than other immigrant groups?
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