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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 3, Chapter 9 Recruitment.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Migrants to Nova Scotia tended to be similar to those going to New York and North Carolina while those migrating to the West Indies tended to be similar to those migrating to which colonies?
(a) The southern colonies.
(b) The northern colonies.
(c) The island colonies.
(d) The central colonies.

4. The occupations and residences of those emigrating to New York and North Carolina are _____________ the previous colonies.
(a) Different from.
(b) Worse than.
(c) The same as.
(d) Better than.

5. When these recruiters confronted the victims about their debt, what choices are they given?
(a) Servitude or slavery.
(b) Debtors' prison or servitude.
(c) Death or servitude.
(d) Death or debtors' prison.

Short Answer Questions

1. The English migrants most often went to Pennsylvania, Maryland and ________.

2. A much smaller percentage was going where?

3. How else are notices circulated?

4. Where are deliberately organized emigrant vessels more common?

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

(see the answer key)

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