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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. The Earl of Hillsborough argues that the colonies are to benefit the kingdom through commerce and the production of goods. What does he think about settling the western lands, regarding this goal?
(a) It is a simple solution to achieve this goal.
(b) It makes a lot of sense.
(c) It will be difficult to do.
(d) It makes no sense.

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

3. When do the first of these offices appear?
(a) In the seventeenth century.
(b) In the sixteenth century.
(c) In the fifteenth century.
(d) In the eighteenth century.

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

5. Do British officials pay much attention at first to the settlement of western lands in America or to emigration from Britain to the colonies?
(a) Yes, a great deal.
(b) Yes, somewhat.
(c) No, not at all.
(d) No, not too much.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Bailyn turns his attention to where the emigrants migrated to in North America. How does he argue that they travel to all the colonies?

3. In the years before the Revolution, there were at least thirty-eight colonial merchant firms dealing in what nationality of servants?

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

5. The occupations and residences of those emigrating to New York and North Carolina are _____________ the previous colonies.

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