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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What nationality are the Pennsylvania Dutch?

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

3. How did Jews who had survived persecution store their wealth?

4. What was the occupation of the German immigrants who landed in St. Louis and Milwaukee?

5. How did German Jews regard themselves?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the effect of the Irish rebellion of 1641?

2. How were the German immigrants characterized?

3. What historical events contributed to the fragmentation of the Italian population?

4. What is culturally and linguistically unique about the size of the United States?

5. How does the average age of an ethnic group affect its socioeconomic status?

6. Why has alcoholism traditionally been lower among Italians than Irish?

7. Why is there no "majority" in the United States?

8. What was the effect on Ireland of the international potato blight of 1845?

9. What are some influences German immigrants have had on American culture?

10. In what ways were slaves better off than the 19th century Irish immigrants?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay in which you compare and contrast two groups of immigrants based on factors such as persistence of the first language, fertility rates, attitudes toward education, etc.

Essay Topic 2

In what ways are socioeconomic differences influenced by location in the host country? What keeps immigrants from moving to the most desirable spots? In your essay, examine the factors that cause immigrant groups to cluster where they do, and what effect that clustering has on their assimilation and economic success.

Essay Topic 3

Sowell contends that looking for causes and effects in history is very different than looking for justification or condemnation. In your essay, examine the differences between the two approaches to the same data.

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