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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. By 1765, it was evident that one result of the employment problems in the silk industry would be what?
(a) A large exodus of weavers to other trades.
(b) A small exodus of weavers to the colonies.
(c) A large exodus of weavers to other countries in Europe.
(d) A large exodus of weavers to the colonies.

2. 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) One year is left out of the count.
(b) Not all travelers are emigrants.
(c) The customs officials did not count correctly.
(d) Many women are pregnant.

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

4. What types of groups of emigrants leave steadily over the months for North America?
(a) Very large.
(b) Large.
(c) Small.
(d) Medium.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What other jobs had also become unstable?

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

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

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

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

(see the answer key)

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