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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) Dublin.
(b) Edinburgh.
(c) London.
(d) Paris.

2. Do similar situations exist in other industries in this city?
(a) Yes.
(b) Yes, but not until later in the century.
(c) No.
(d) Yes, but only in a small amount of industries.

3. The reports from the customs officials show 9,868 individuals leaving for North America from December, 1773 to March, 1776. Why must this number must be adjusted?
(a) The customs officials did not count correctly.
(b) One year is left out of the count.
(c) Not all travelers are emigrants.
(d) Many women are pregnant.

4. The overwhelming majority of the individuals emigrating gave their destinations as mainland North American colonies south of where?
(a) New York.
(b) North Carolina.
(c) Massachusetts.
(d) Nova Scotia.

5. Where are deliberately organized emigrant vessels more common?
(a) In Northern English and Northern Irish ports.
(b) In Southern English and Irish ports.
(c) In Southern English and French ports.
(d) In Northern English and Scottish ports.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Bailyn's first impression of British life in the years leading up to the American Revolution?

2. What other jobs had also become unstable?

3. What has long existed in the silk industry?

4. Most available for labor are who?

5. It is estimated that for the years 1718 to 1775, how many convicts were banished to the colonies?

(see the answer key)

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