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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2, Chapter 5 Identities and Motivations: The Dual Emigration.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Of the 6,190 emigrants whose occupation is listed, only _____________ listed occupations that were considered "gentle."
(a) 4.5%
(b) 45%
(c) 2.3%.
(d) 23%.

2. Those between what ages typically travel independent of families?
(a) 18 and 25.
(b) 10 and 15.
(c) 15 and 24.
(d) 20 and 30.

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

4. In 1753, into what debate does the Earl of Hillsborough enter?
(a) Whether to create a new nation out of the colonies.
(b) Whether Great Britain should stay in control of the colonies.
(c) Whether to allow people to emigrate to the colonies.
(d) Whether to create a national census.

5. Bailyn argues that for the men a picture develops of lower middle and working class men for whom emigration was what?
(a) A desperate escape rather than an opportunity to be sought.
(b) Something that they must do for their families.
(c) An opportunity to be sought rather than a desperate escape.
(d) Something exciting to do.

Short Answer Questions

1. The ages of the emigrants tended to concentrate around what ages?

2. The magnitude of these developments was __________________ in these years than they had been in the preceding years.

3. Into where does the population of the colonies spread?

4. What does the Earl of Hillsborough grasp?

5. How is this concentration of ages markedly different from the overall percentage of British citizens and from the population of the American colonies?

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