The rate of intermarriage between Italian Americans and other white ethnic groups is highest for ...

The rate of intermarriage between Italian Americans and other white ethnic groups is highest for
 
  a. those who married between 1920 and 1950.
   b. first- and second-generation Italian Americans.
   c. those over 40 years of age.
  d. those with higher status educational and occupational achievements.

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Public schools at the end of the 19th century
 
  a. excluded Italian immigrants.
   b. excluded Italian immigrants and also their American born descendants.
   c. sought to Americanize Italians as quickly as possible.
  d. greatly increased the rate of economic and social mobility of second-generation Italian Americans.