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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. Most of these vessels listed were probably engaged in commercial voyages and carried passengers for what reason?
(a) To help them get to America.
(b) To have enough workers on the ship.
(c) To break even on their profits.
(d) To fill out their cargo and to gain some extra profit.

2. Most available for labor are who?
(a) Children.
(b) Condemned criminals.
(c) Women.
(d) Indentured servants.

3. Archibald Menzies decides that he had found the perfect race of people to populate Florida. What race is this?
(a) The Greeks.
(b) The Italians.
(c) The Turks.
(d) The Hungarians.

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

5. At certain times, vessels would carry _________ numbers of emigrants.
(a) Large.
(b) Small.
(c) Very small.
(d) An average.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the pre-Revolutionary days, what is the largest urban center in the western world?

2. After ten years, what would happen to any land not populated?

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

4. What types of groups of emigrants leave steadily over the months for North America?

5. In 1772, what does De Brahm present to the King?

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