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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What percentage of Puerto Ricans voted for independent nationhood?
(a) 60%.
(b) 10%.
(c) 39%.
(d) One percent.

2. Why did many Japanese property owners in the U.S. put title to the land in the names of their children?
(a) They children could attract better marriage partners.
(b) They hoped for greater prosperity for their children.
(c) The children could avoid excessive taxation.
(d) The children were born in the U.S. and not subject to the Alien Land Law.

3. What was the Bracero Program of 1942?
(a) Deportation of illegal Mexican workers.
(b) Citizenship programs for illegal Mexican residents.
(c) Legal residence for contract Mexican workers.
(d) Amnesty for illegal Mexican residents.

4. Chapter VIII states that the cruelest slave masters were of what nationality?
(a) American.
(b) Jamaican.
(c) African.
(d) Arab.

5. How many languages were and are spoken in Africa?
(a) More than 800.
(b) Around 200.
(c) Fewer than 500.
(d) Over 1,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which religion forbade the owning of slaves and produced many abolitionists?

2. Where did the Alien Land Law prohibit Japanese immigrants from buying land?

3. What was a Pachuco?

4. What percentage of Puerto Ricans voted to be accepted as a U.S. state?

5. What vices were commonly available in Chinatown?

Short Essay Questions

1. What effect did Chinese immigration to the United States have on Japanese immigrants?

2. How did Japan view the United States in the 19th century?

3. What qualities distinguished Japanese school children in the U.S.?

4. What is unique about the Mexican population in the Southwest?

5. What obstacles to progress were faced by emancipated slaves?

6. In what ways did geography contribute to the perpetuation of slavery?

7. How do Puerto Ricans compare economically with other immigrant groups?

8. What negative effects did total dependence have on the slave population?

9. What are some signs of the slow acculturation of Mexican immigrants?

10. Why was marriage among slaves encouraged by slave owners?

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