Throughout American history, businesses and corporations supported mass migration because ...

Immigrants were a cheap source of labor.

Long story narratives (like ours) differ from short story narratives because ...

added length allows one to paint scenes and build character.

Growing racial consciousness at the first turn of 20th century led to the following EXCEPT ...

the elimination of the Klu Klux Klan

The Second U.S. Naturalization Act of 1795 achieved all of the following EXCEPT...

applied to free-born black persons

The three main waves of U.S. immigration included all of the following EXCEPT ...

The arrival of the pilgrims to Plymouth colony

Racist U.S. immigration policies were a challenge to its Cold War foreign relations because ...

the quota system created racial disparities that looked bad.

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HIST 233 Review of Immigration and Story Craft

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We will review key ideas from David Gerber's American Immigration and Jack Hart's Story Craft in preparation for the exam.

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1
According to Hart, action develops a theme in a fully realized story so that ...
the writer can teach life lessons to the next generation.
All of the above
the writer can express his or her personal values.
there will be a central focus to reporting and writing.
2
All of the following are structural elements of a story EXCEPT ...
crisis
exposition
rising action
fact-based journalism
3
Throughout American history, businesses and corporations supported mass migration because ...
Immigrants were a cheap source of labor.
They endorsed the biases of nativists.
They liked labor unions.
They valued ethnic diversity over profits.
4
Long story narratives (like ours) differ from short story narratives because ...
action doesn't matter.
None of the above
they tend to be more boring.
added length allows one to paint scenes and build character.
5
Successful narrative writing technique springs from ...
All of the above
the use of intransitive verbs
flat characters and the absence of a protagonist
the tension of a crisis
6
Humans developed storytelling to ...
perceive the world and get an edge for survival.
plan, revise, criticize, construct, gossip, and learn.
remember, anticipate, hope, despair, believe, and doubt.
All of the above
7
Growing racial consciousness at the first turn of 20th century led to the following EXCEPT ...
the spread of eugenics and racialist pseudo-science
efforts to exclude Mexicans and Asians as non-white
immigration quotas
the elimination of the Klu Klux Klan
8
The Second U.S. Naturalization Act of 1795 achieved all of the following EXCEPT...
required new citizens to revoke loyalties to other nations
applied to free-born black persons
allowed "white" immigrants to naturalize after five years
built a consensus in Congress on the terms of naturalization
9
The 1965 immigration law ...
created an H-1B track for technical and specialized workers
All of the above
helped create a numerical majority of women among immigrants
prioritized family reunification in granting visas
10
The three main waves of U.S. immigration included all of the following EXCEPT ...
The German and Irish migration of the 1840s-1850s
South and East European migrations between the 1890s and WWI
Immigration following the 1965 to present
The arrival of the pilgrims to Plymouth colony
11
If you can use information from a source, but you cannot attribute it to anyone it is called ..
Off the record
On the record
Not for attribution
On background
12
How can you organize your story in addition to narrative arc?
Scene by scene
Minute by minute
Theme by theme
All of the above
13
In colonial North America, British authorities ...
only loosely regulated migration.
All of the above
made few restrictions on naturalization.
were eager to recruit workers of any European origin.
14
Racist U.S. immigration policies were a challenge to its Cold War foreign relations because ...
the quota system created racial disparities that looked bad.
organized labor refused to let in unskilled immigrants.
refugees preferred destinations such as Russia or Japan.
it allowed in too many communists from Eastern Europe.
15
As the U.S. economy went into depression in the 1870s, many "white" Californians ...
All of the above
supported measures to force Chinese to re-emigrate to China.
worried about wage competition from Chinese immigrants.
lobbied against further Chinese immigration.

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