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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 gave free persons of color a head start over other blacks?
(a) Legal protections.
(b) Literacy.
(c) Job skills.
(d) Nutrition.

2. What percentage of Puerto Ricans voted to be accepted as a U.S. state?
(a) 39%
(b) 74%.
(c) 10%.
(d) 60%.

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

4. What was a "hatchet man"?
(a) An entertainer.
(b) A woodsman.
(c) A lumberjack.
(d) A member of a Chinese secret society.

5. How did Chinese immigrants finance business startups?
(a) Theft.
(b) Rotating credit associations.
(c) Maintaining high credit ratings.
(d) Borrowing from employers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was one result of social isolation and fragmentation in Africa?

2. What drug was introduced in the U.S. by Chinese immigrants?

3. What did Nat Turner lead?

4. What percentage of white families in the South owned no slaves at all?

5. How many slaves came to the Western Hemisphere?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why has Mexican immigration divided the mainstream population?

2. Why did most Chinese immigrants work in laundries and restaurants in the U.S.?

3. How have Chinese immigrants traditionally been received in host countries?

4. What effect did Chinese immigration to the United States have on Japanese immigrants?

5. Why is it particularly difficult to measure advancement in the immigrant Puerto Rican community?

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

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

8. How do Puerto Ricans compare economically with other immigrant groups?

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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