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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. Most of these vessels listed were probably engaged in commercial voyages and carried passengers for what reason?
(a) To have enough workers on the ship.
(b) To fill out their cargo and to gain some extra profit.
(c) To break even on their profits.
(d) To help them get to America.

2. As what do the colonies become known?
(a) A no man's land.
(b) A potential gold mine in land values, consumer markets, and so on.
(c) A savage land.
(d) A threat to British power.

3. Why does Tompkyns soon hire an extra clerk?
(a) He is sick.
(b) He is overwhelmed with his job.
(c) He is tired of his job.
(d) He is emigrating to America.

4. In the pre-Revolutionary years, many people emigrated from where?
(a) England.
(b) The British mainland.
(c) The European continent.
(d) France.

5. What is John Tompkyns' job?
(a) He sends the reports to the various inspection sites.
(b) He files all of the paperwork.
(c) He inspects and corrects each incoming report and then copies the information onto large uniform sheets.
(d) He organizes the paperwork.

Short Answer Questions

1. After 1760 and the end of the war in North America, what happens to the colonies?

2. In 1753, into what debate does the Earl of Hillsborough enter?

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

4. What is commonly believed by 1773?

5. English women emigrants were almost always engaged in what sort of work?

(see the answer key)

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