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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name for a middleman who bought and sold indentured servants?
(a) Soul driver.
(b) Slave driver.
(c) Coyote.
(d) Simon Legree.

2. What is the "ghetto crouch?"
(a) A refusal to respond to bullying.
(b) A proactive response to bullying.
(c) A violent response to bullying.
(d) A passive response to bullying.

3. What percentage of the population is the largest single ethnic group?
(a) 52%.
(b) 47%.
(c) 15%.
(d) 75%.

4. Where do most people of Irish ancestry live?
(a) In the British Isles.
(b) In the United States.
(c) In Ireland.
(d) In Canada.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In their own land, the Irish were a _________________ people.

2. The "penal laws" imposed by the British on the Irish were intended to keep the Irish in what situation?

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

4. What industry occupied nearly half of Russian Jews prior to their emigration to the U.S.?

5. Why was American farming foreign to the Irish immigrants?

(see the answer key)

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