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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 percentage of Puerto Ricans voted for independent nationhood?

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

3. Heightened, more militant group consciousness typically appears in which generation?

4. How did Chinese immigrants finance business startups?

5. What ethnicities are combined in Puerto Ricans?

Short Essay Questions

1. What factors make Puerto Rican immigrants unique?

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

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

4. How have Chinese immigrants traditionally been received in host countries?

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

6. Why has Mexican immigration divided the mainstream population?

7. What field of endeavor was essentially invented by immigrant Japanese?

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

9. Why were most early Chinese immigrants to the U.S. sojourners?

10. Why did most Chinese immigrants work in laundries and restaurants in the U.S.?

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

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.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay in which you explore the responses of various immigrant groups to the discrimination against them in the United States. Consider which responses led to successful assimilation over time, and support your opinion about the best way to deal with discrimination with data from the text.

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