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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With acculturation, IQ rates tend to:
(a) Become insignificant.
(b) Rise.
(c) Fall.
(d) Remain constant.

2. What advantages did early Irish immigrants have over others?
(a) They had business acumen and education.
(b) They were hard workers and used to urban life.
(c) They had skills for industrialization.
(d) They spoke English and many were literate.

3. What important social change did Germans bring to the mainstream culture?
(a) Respect for science.
(b) Beer drinking.
(c) Promotion of family entertainment.
(d) Stricter morals and mores.

4. Why was American farming foreign to the Irish immigrants?
(a) It required long work days.
(b) It required different crops.
(c) It required larger tracts of land.
(d) It required isolation.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who were the "Know-Nothings"?

3. What percentage of the population is the largest single ethnic group?

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

5. What was a "redemptioner"?

(see the answer key)

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