A Noble Heritage Chapter 7 Quiz – Gateway to the American Dream

1. As many as ______ percent of the immigrants who arrived at Ellis Island during the early part of the twentieth century were sent home again each year without ever setting foot on American soil.

a) 2

b) 5

c) 10

d) 20

2. About one out of ______ immigrants had to spend long, anxious days or weeks in detention or quarantine, some merely waiting until they could be processed, others until officials were satisfied that they met all the requirements for admission.

a) 2

b) 5

c) 10

d) 20

3. The first of Nathan Polonsky’s children to arrive in America was ______, in 1905.

a) His eldest son, Levi Yitzhak Polonsky (Louis Isadore Paull)

b) His middle son, Joseph Polonsky

c) His youngest son, Leon Polonsky

d) All of the above; they all came over together

4. Nathan Polonsky’s sister, Basheva, and his brothers, Pincus and Leyb, immigrated to America between ______.

a) 1895 and 1904

b) 1905 and 1907

c) 1908 and 1914

d) 1915 and 1921

5. ______, who settled in Brooklyn, played an important role in helping to bring the rest of his family to America.

a) Levi Yitzhak Polonsky

b) Leon Polonsky

c) Joseph Polonsky

d) Nathan Polonsky

6. On July 28, 1914, scarcely two months after Nathan Polonsky and his family arrived in America, ______.

a) World War I was declared

b) Many of the steamships were re-directed to the war effort

c) Immigration slowed to a trickle

d) All of the above 7. Approximately ______ Jews immigrated to the United States between 1880 and 1924.

a) 500,000

b) one million

c) three million

d) five million

8. By the early 1920s, growing anti-immigration sentiment in the United States severely restricted immigration from ______.

a) Northern Europe

b) Western Europe

c) Southern and Eastern Europe

d) All of the above

9. Immigration records have been located in the Ellis Island database for ______ members of the Polonsky

family, who immigrated to America between1905–1922.

a) 14

b) 28

c) 56

d) 112

10. Pincus Polonsky was Nathan Polonsky’s ______.

a) brother

b) brother-in-law

c) uncle

d) cousin

11. Schaindel (Americanized to Sarah) Polonsky was ______.

a) Nathan Polonsky’s sister

b) Nathan Polonsky’s sister-in-law

c) Nathan Polonsky’s cousin

d) Pinchas Polonsky’s wife

e) (b) and (d)

12. Basheva Kahan Americanized her name to Bessie Cohen. She was ______.

a) Nathan Polonsky’s sister

b) Nathan Polonsky’s sister-in-law

c) Nathan Polonsky’s cousin

d) Michael Kahan’s wife

e) (a) and (d)

13. Upon immigrating to America, Nathan Polonsky’s family settled mostly in Brooklyn, while his siblings’ families settled mostly in ______.

a) Manhattan and the Bronx

b) New Hampshire

c) New Jersey

d) Pennsylvania

14. The name of the steamship that Nathan Polonsky sailed to America on was the _______.

a) SS Czar

b) SS Dwinsk

c) SS Kursk

d) SS Russia 15. The name of the steamship that Levi Yitzhak Polonsky (Louis Isadore Paull) sailed to America on was the

_______.

a) SS Estonia

b) SS Furnessia

c) SS St. Paul

d) SS Zeeland

16. The place of last residence listed on the immigration records of Polonsky family members included ______.

a) Cherkasy, Russia

b) Kiev, Russia

c) Shpola, Russia

d) Stanislaw, Austria

e) All of the above