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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. What was one significant difference between slavery in the U.S. and slavery throughout history, as identified by Sowell?

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

3. Under the laws of the Manchu dynasty, what could Chinese men not return to China without?

4. Chapter VIII states that the cruelest slave masters were of what nationality?

5. How many languages were and are spoken in Africa?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

7. What was unusual about the Japanese government's approach to emigration to the U.S.?

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

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

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

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

The age of an immigrant population affects its socioeconomic status in the new country. In your essay, compare an older immigrant group, such as the Jews, with a group that is younger, such as the Puerto Ricans, and examine how the age distribution within the group affects its progress.

Essay Topic 3

Prices are affected by the culture of arriving immigrants. In your essay, explain, for example, how landlords in slum neighborhoods with heavy populations of newcomers charge high rents but do not receive high incomes, and how crime rates in such neighborhoods affect the cost of items in local stores.

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