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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 does the typical Chinese immigrant in the U.S. do more than others?
(a) Return to their homeland.
(b) Send money home.
(c) Work and study.
(d) Intermarry outside their ethnic group.

2. Japanese pieceworkers earned ____________ than whites doing the same work.
(a) Less.
(b) More rapidly.
(c) More.
(d) More gradually.

3. After the 1906 earthquake, when 10,000 Japanese were left homeless, how many applied for public relief?
(a) 5,000.
(b) 10,000.
(c) None.
(d) 2,500.

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

5. Mexican immigrants rank highest in what index?
(a) Education.
(b) Fertility.
(c) Reverse migration.
(d) Income.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Japanese government do when immigrants to Hawaii were unhappy with working conditions?

2. Who did Puerto Rican nationalists attempt to assassinate in 1952?

3. What was higher among Puerto Ricans in New York than among either blacks or whites?

4. Why did lighter skin become overrepresented among achieving blacks?

5. What was a Californio?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are black Americans both the oldest and the youngest immigrant group?

2. What factors account for Chinese success in the United States?

3. What was unusual about the Japanese government's approach to emigration to the U.S.?

4. What factors make Puerto Rican immigrants unique?

5. What anti-Japanese legislation in California caused problems for the Japanese immigrants?

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

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

8. Why is it particularly difficult to measure advancement in the immigrant Puerto Rican community?

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

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

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