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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 1772, what does De Brahm present to the King?
(a) A large sum of money.
(b) A huge map.
(c) A present.
(d) A special dinner.

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

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

4. Who had provided what little information was known about this area from experience in the battles with the Spanish?
(a) Spanish settlers.
(b) Land speculators.
(c) Military leaders.
(d) Spanish politicians.

5. Is child labor popular in the silk industry at this time?
(a) Yes.
(b) At the beginning of the century.
(c) In some regions.
(d) No.

Short Answer Questions

1. Do similar situations exist in other industries in this city?

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

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

4. Can the precise difference between the actual numbers of emigrants and between the Register's totals be established?

5. In 1763, when almost all of the land east of the Mississippi River became the territory of what nation?

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