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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 4, Chapter 12 Failure in Xanadu.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is appointed in the south to create a map?
(a) Samuel Holland.
(b) Gerry De Vane.
(c) Seth Hammond.
(d) Gerard De Brahm.

2. What society was made up on 40 to 50 merchants, noblemen, and entrepreneurs who wanted to develop new properties in America?
(a) The Mississippi Society.
(b) The East Florida Society.
(c) The West Florida Society.
(d) The Alabaman Society.

3. By 1765, it was evident that one result of the employment problems in the silk industry would be what?
(a) A large exodus of weavers to the colonies.
(b) A small exodus of weavers to the colonies.
(c) A large exodus of weavers to other countries in Europe.
(d) A large exodus of weavers to other trades.

4. The emigrants listed in the Register sailed to America in how many different vessels?
(a) 402.
(b) 102.
(c) 202.
(d) 302.

5. It is estimated that for the years 1718 to 1775, how many convicts were banished to the colonies?
(a) 50,000.
(b) 20,000.
(c) 40,000.
(d) 30,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. What other jobs had also become unstable?

2. Grants that are given are revocable unless _____________ of the land was populated within three years with one person for every hundred acres.

3. Where is the silk industry developed in the late seventeenth century?

4. Is the movement to the colonies a patternless roaming?

5. Where are deliberately organized emigrant vessels more common?

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