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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. Efforts are being made to exploit and populate the coastal lands of what states?
(a) Florida, Mississippi and Alabama.
(b) North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia.
(c) Maine, Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
(d) New York, Delaware and Maryland.

2. What has long existed in the silk industry?
(a) Many jobs.
(b) Labor unrest.
(c) Happy employees.
(d) The same weaving techniques.

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

4. In 1763, when almost all of the land east of the Mississippi River became the territory of what nation?
(a) Spain.
(b) Germany.
(c) France.
(d) Great Britain.

5. After ten years, what would happen to any land not populated?
(a) It would become the land of the Native Americans.
(b) It would revert back to the land speculator.
(c) It would become the land of Spain.
(d) It would revert back to the crown.

Short Answer Questions

1. By 1775, it is estimated that one in every ____________ of the people in this city was a servant.

2. Archibald Menzies decides that he had found the perfect race of people to populate Florida. What race is this?

3. What society was made up on 40 to 50 merchants, noblemen, and entrepreneurs who wanted to develop new properties in America?

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

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

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