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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which group of Jews in New York were more established and wealthier?

2. With acculturation, IQ rates tend to:

3. Before steamships, to what was sea travel for the immigrants directly tied?

4. During the decades surrounding the beginning of the 20th century, what proportion of Eastern European Jews moved to the United States?

5. What diseases plagued the Irish living in tenements?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did the Jews in various countries not fight back against discrimination?

2. Why has alcoholism traditionally been lower among Italians than Irish?

3. What was a redemptioner?

4. What is culturally and linguistically unique about the size of the United States?

5. What was unusual about German migration patterns in the 20th century?

6. What is "amoral familism"?

7. How does the average age of an ethnic group affect its socioeconomic status?

8. How did the geography of Italy contribute to the fragmentation of its people?

9. Who are the Pennsylvania Dutch?

10. During the 19th and early 20th centuries, how did Italian literacy compare with the rest of Europe?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The alternating welcome/rejection of Chinese immigrants is a complicated story. In your essay, examine how and why restrictive immigration laws ultimately led to crime and vice among Chinese immigrants.

Essay Topic 2

In your essay, address the following questions: What is stereotyping? Where does the image of the drunken, brawling Irishman or the knife-wielding Mafioso become a stereotype? What's wrong with stereotyping? Why do we stereotype others? Are stereotypical images without factual bases?

Essay Topic 3

Select one ethnic group for which you will explore how the cultural values that came with them from their country of origin affected their assimilation into the culture of the United States. For example, what effect did Jewish dietary laws and ritual cleansing have on them? What effect did Italian emphasis on self-reliance have on them when they became immigrants?

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