Chapter 10: Italian Americans
When you ask about Italian Americans most people think about mobs. This is a stereotype that is far from truth. Nearly half of Italian immigrants would eventually return to Italy, but today's Italian-American community is descended from those who decided to remain in America. We got learn a lot about Italian Americans in chapter 10 of history class. Take the quiz and see how much you recall about them.
- 1.About ___% of US population today has Italian roots.
- A.
5
- B.
1
- C.
20
- D.
10
- 2.Gambino claimed that Italian Americans
- A.
Are well educated about their background
- B.
Are among the most ethnically aware of all immigrant groups
- C.
Are confused about their background
- D.
Are indifferent about their background
- 3.One very real difference between Italian and Irish imigrants was the Italian emphasis on
- A.
Work
- B.
Family
- C.
Money
- D.
Religion
- 4.The two higest decades for numbers of Italian immigrants to the US were the
- A.
1860s and 1870s
- B.
1980s and 1990s
- C.
1910s and 1920s
- D.
1950s and 1960s
- 5.All of the following were reasons for Italian immigration to the US EXCEPT
- A.
Joining family members who had previously migrated
- B.
Escaping the population explosion in Europe
- C.
Seeing the move as only temporarily and planning to return home
- D.
Religious persecution
- 6.Southern Italian peasant farmers who left Italy becasue of food scarity and natural disasters were called the
- A.
Stranieri
- B.
Dagos
- C.
Contandini
- D.
Mezzogiorno
- 7.Thereception that Italian immigrants faced when arriving in New York City was
- A.
Hostile
- B.
Welcoming
- C.
Very different from that greeting other European immigrants
- D.
Indifferent
- 8.Which immigrant group did the US Catholic Church favor the most?
- A.
Germans
- B.
Italians
- C.
Irish
- D.
French
- 9.Italian immigrants tended to settle in:
- A.
Rural areas
- B.
The industrial cities of the midwest
- C.
The deep south
- D.
The port cities of the east
- 10.The victims of the largest mass lynching American history which took place in New Orleans in 1891 were:
- A.
Irish American
- B.
Italian American
- C.
African American
- D.
German American
- 11.Italian laborers
- A.
Were hired for only the most menial jobs
- B.
Were seen as expendable
- C.
Were paid less African or Irish Americans
- D.
All of the above
- 12.Italian mericans responded to the harsh reception by US society in all the following EXCEPT
- A.
Massive intermarriage
- B.
Pluralism in employment
- C.
Forming "little italys'
- D.
Separate Catholic communities
- 13.Irish, German, and Italian Catholicism
- A.
Lead to religious equality in the US
- B.
Had identical histories
- C.
Shared the same practices
- D.
None of the above
- 14.All of the following contributed to a high degree of separation fo rItalian Americans in employment except
- A.
Lack of skills
- B.
Willingness to do menial work
- C.
Need for laborers by dominant group
- D.
Religious mandates
- 15.La Sorte referred to ______as the adjustments italian Americans made to speaking different dialects in the US
- A.
Anglitalian
- B.
Italian Dialect American
- C.
Itaglish
- D.
Sicillian English
- 16.How did the US Italian American community learn about the New Orleans lynchings?
- A.
Italian radio
- B.
Italian newspapers
- C.
Local newspapers
- D.
Telegrams from family members
- 17.Anti-Italian prejudice resurfaced repeatedly in US history. All of the following are key events in its resurfacing except:
- A.
The bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941
- B.
WWII
- C.
Mafia activity
- D.
Sacco and Vanzetti case
- 18.For immigrants living in the Italian enclaves, the Italian language
- A.
Faded away
- B.
Persisted
- C.
Was replaced by English
- D.
Became useless
- 19.Which word is the one used by sociologists to describe the second generation Italians and anyone who experiences half the culture of their parents and half of the dominant group
- A.
Assimilated
- B.
Transparent non-identity
- C.
Old-world identified
- D.
Marginal
- 20.Nearly _____of Italian Americans now reside in suburbs
- A.
1/10
- B.
1/2
- C.
1/5
- D.
2/3
- 21.In terms of Italian American marital assimilation, all of following are true except
- A.
Italians face less systematic prejudice
- B.
Italians experience more marriages to non-Italians
- C.
Marital assimilation is relatively low
- D.
The patterns of increasing inter-cultural marriages are clear
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