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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many of the emigrants from the potato famine died en route to America in 1847?
(a) Five percent.
(b) Ten percent.
(c) Fifty percent.
(d) Twenty percent.

2. Discrimination against Irish workers was exemplified in the phrase, "No Irish need ____________."
(a) Purchase.
(b) Venture.
(c) Enter.
(d) Apply.

3. What was the occupation of the German immigrants who landed in St. Louis and Milwaukee?
(a) Farming.
(b) Construction.
(c) Peddling.
(d) Brewing beer.

4. What caused repeated conflicts between the Scotch-Irish and the Celtic Irish immigrants who arrived later?
(a) Religion.
(b) Slavery.
(c) Politics.
(d) Education.

5. Which ethnic group has the highest fertility rates?
(a) Polish Americans.
(b) Chinese Americans.
(c) Mexican-Americans.
(d) Blacks.

Short Answer Questions

1. What Irish product undermined the welfare of Irish people?

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

3. What crop were most slaves in the U.S. producing?

4. How long did it take to cross the Atlantic in a steamship?

5. The longer the journey by ship took, the _______________ the people became.

(see the answer key)

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