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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter VII, The Japanese.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was a "Hessian"?
(a) German pacifists.
(b) German soldiers recruited to fight in the Revolutionary War.
(c) German communitarians.
(d) German government officials.

2. The "penal laws" imposed by the British on the Irish were intended to keep the Irish in what situation?
(a) Educated and healthy.
(b) Subjugated and impoverished.
(c) Upwardly mobile.
(d) Impoverished and frightened.

3. Which group formed the largest migration to America in the 19th century?
(a) Germans.
(b) Italians.
(c) Irish.
(d) Jews.

4. Heightened, more militant group consciousness typically appears in which generation?
(a) Third.
(b) Second.
(c) First.
(d) Fourth.

5. Where did the majority of Celtic Irish congregate?
(a) The urban Southeast.
(b) The rural South.
(c) The urban Northeast.
(d) The rural North.

Short Answer Questions

1. What early 20th century occupation was 90% done by Italians?

2. Which ethnic group got along best with the Indians?

3. What important social change did Germans bring to the mainstream culture?

4. How much of the arable land in Ireland was used for growing potatoes before the famine?

5. In California, Japanese immigrants initiated what two business models?

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