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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter IX, The Puerto Ricans.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was a "redemptioner"?
(a) An indentured servant.
(b) A slave.
(c) A purchaser of indentures.
(d) A German immigrant who expected relatives to pay his way.

2. What vice did Jewish immigrants almost universally avoid?
(a) Organized crime.
(b) Gambling.
(c) Alcoholism.
(d) Pornography.

3. What did German immigrants retain whether in urban or rural settings?
(a) A mistrust of the Irish.
(b) An adventurous, traveling spirit.
(c) A desire to return to the homeland.
(d) The German language and culture.

4. For Japanese schoolchildren in the U.S., academic success was a matter of family ______________.
(a) Responsibility.
(b) Honor.
(c) Interest.
(d) Loyalty.

5. In what field did the Irish immigrants to America achieve their first successes?
(a) The arts.
(b) Politics.
(c) Cuisine.
(d) Science.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the "ghetto crouch?"

2. What mode of travel was first predominantly used in the Puerto Rican migration to the U.S.?

3. What advantage did European Jewish immigrants have in arriving in the United States?

4. Immigrants on cargo ships could not select their______________.

5. What educational reform did Germans propose and support?

(see the answer key)

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