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

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

3. What was unique among immigrant groups about Chinese population size in the U.S.?
(a) The immigrant Chinese population maintained a constant size.
(b) The immigrant Chinese population grew more rapidly.
(c) The Chinese population was the only immigrant group to get smaller.
(d) The immigrant Chinese population disappeared.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was a Californio?

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

4. After the 1906 earthquake, when 10,000 Japanese were left homeless, how many applied for public relief?

5. In New York, what percentage of Chinese residents accepted federal aid during the Great Depression?

Short Essay Questions

1. What negative effects did total dependence have on the slave population?

2. How did American law operate against Chinese immigrants?

3. What factors make Puerto Rican immigrants unique?

4. How was Chinese cultural diversity similar to that of Italy?

5. What are the "pushes" and "pulls" that bring Mexican immigrants to the United States?

6. Why has Mexican immigration divided the mainstream population?

7. What factors account for Chinese success in the United States?

8. What are some signs of the slow acculturation of Mexican immigrants?

9. What anti-Japanese legislation in California caused problems for the Japanese immigrants?

10. Why was marriage among slaves encouraged by slave owners?

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