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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which religion forbade the owning of slaves and produced many abolitionists?
(a) Catholic.
(b) Presbyterian.
(c) Quaker.
(d) Methodist.

2. How did German Jews regard themselves?
(a) Jewish Americans.
(b) Jews from Germany.
(c) Germans of the Hebrew faith.
(d) Hebrews from Europe.

3. What is the "diaspora"?
(a) The discrimination against Jews.
(b) The immigration of the Jews to the United States.
(c) The dispersion of the Jews throughout the world.
(d) The gathering of the Jews to the new nation of Israel.

4. What was a "picture bride"?
(a) A bride from Japan accepted on the basis of a photograph.
(b) A perfectly beautiful bride.
(c) A bride from the U.S. accepted on the basis of a photograph.
(d) A bride who spoke no English.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many people died of starvation or illness during the Great Famine of the 1840s in Ireland?

2. The highest fertility rates are found in groups with the ________________ incomes.

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

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

5. With acculturation, IQ rates tend to:

(see the answer key)

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