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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. Who were the first free persons of colors?

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

3. Why did lighter skin become overrepresented among achieving blacks?

4. Most Japanese immigrants in the 19th century were young men from what kind of background?

5. What is a "coyote"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What factors account for Chinese success in the United States?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

Over time, most immigrant groups are first discriminated against, then eventually accepted and assimilated. In your essay, examine the factors that contribute to increasing mutual acceptance. Consider, for example, "the destructive toll of mutual intolerance." What is that toll? Who pays it? How does the economy reward cooperation?

Essay Topic 3

In an essay, compare and contrast the life of a sojourner with that of an immigrant who comes to the new country intending to stay. Compare such factors as language acquisition, desire for citizenship, spending, and education.

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