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

2. What drug was introduced in the U.S. by Chinese immigrants?
(a) Opium.
(b) Heroin.
(c) Marijuana.
(d) Cocaine.

3. What percentage of white families in the South owned no slaves at all?
(a) 15%.
(b) 25%.
(c) 50%.
(d) 75%.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of governmental structure did most Puerto Ricans vote to continue?

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

3. By 1970, which city had the most Puerto Ricans?

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

5. How many slaves came to the Western Hemisphere?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is unique about the Mexican population in the Southwest?

2. What obstacles to progress were faced by emancipated slaves?

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

4. What field of endeavor was essentially invented by immigrant Japanese?

5. How did Japan view the United States in the 19th century?

6. How did American law operate against Chinese immigrants?

7. What was unique about the slave population of the United States when compared with slaves in other countries?

8. Why were most early Chinese immigrants to the U.S. sojourners?

9. What factors make Puerto Rican immigrants unique?

10. What qualities distinguished Japanese school children in the U.S.?

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