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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. Who did Puerto Rican nationalists attempt to assassinate in 1952?
(a) President Truman.
(b) President Nixon.
(c) President Roosevelt.
(d) President Eisenhower.

2. What historical events at the turn of the century raised Japanese confidence?
(a) Being twice voted most popular tourist destination.
(b) Winning wars against China and Russia.
(c) Winning Nobel prizes for science and math.
(d) Accumulating more wealth than other Asian nations.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was a Pachuco?

2. What was the Bracero Program of 1942?

3. Why are the Hong Kong Chinese vulnerable to employer exploitation?

4. What occupations did Chinese immigrants typically take in the mining camps?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How are black Americans both the oldest and the youngest immigrant group?

4. In what ways did geography contribute to the perpetuation of slavery?

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

6. What are some socioeconomic results of early marriages and high fertility rates among Puerto Rican immigrants?

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

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

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

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

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