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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. In the pre-Revolutionary days, what is the largest urban center in the western world?
(a) London.
(b) Paris.
(c) Dublin.
(d) Edinburgh.

2. Can the precise difference between the actual numbers of emigrants and between the Register's totals be established?
(a) Maybe.
(b) Yes, in a few years.
(c) No.
(d) Yes.

3. The beginning steps of opening the land to settlement are _________.
(a) Confident.
(b) Unsure.
(c) Anxious.
(d) Fearful.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What area proved to be most attractive to land speculators and investors?

2. Bailyn compares the Register's totals to notices of ships' arrivals in North America and finds what?

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

4. At certain times, vessels would carry _________ numbers of emigrants.

5. Who is appointed in the south to create a map?

(see the answer key)

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