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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter XI, Implications.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why are profits on slum dwellings not high?
(a) Landlords typically forgive a portion of the rent.
(b) Rents often go unpaid.
(c) Landlords lower rents to accomodated poorer tenants.
(d) Rents are restricted to a percentage of income.

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

3. What percentage of Puerto Ricans voted to be accepted as a U.S. state?
(a) 60%.
(b) 74%.
(c) 10%.
(d) 39%

4. Where did the Alien Land Law prohibit Japanese immigrants from buying land?
(a) The United States.
(b) Hawaii.
(c) Japan.
(d) California.

5. How did Jews who had survived persecution store their wealth?
(a) Works of art.
(b) Gold and jewelry.
(c) Expensive clothes.
(d) Home furnishings.

Short Answer Questions

1. Japanese pieceworkers earned ____________ than whites doing the same work.

2. What was the primary loyalty of southern Italians in the 20th century?

3. What nationality are the Pennsylvania Dutch?

4. How did northern and southern Italian immigrants regard each other?

5. What gave free persons of color a head start over other blacks?

(see the answer key)

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