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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. What does John Powell, an undersecretary of state for the colonies, suggest?
(a) Emigration be halted.
(b) A statistical assessment of those who do not emigrate.
(c) Emigration be difficult and expensive.
(d) A statistical assessment of emigration be done to see how Britain was affected.

2. After registering, were vessels free to pick up passengers without registering them?
(a) Maybe.
(b) Only ten passengers.
(c) Yes.
(d) No.

3. 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 makes no sense.
(b) It is a simple solution to achieve this goal.
(c) It will be difficult to do.
(d) It makes a lot of sense.

4. A much smaller percentage was going where?
(a) To Mexico and the West Indies.
(b) To Canada and Nova Scotia.
(c) To North Carolina and New York.
(d) To Canada and the West Indies.

5. What information is sometimes estimated by the customs officials?
(a) Gender.
(b) Age.
(c) Trade.
(d) Race.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Tompkyns soon hire an extra clerk?

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

3. In what kind of world do these people live?

4. Why is the data source that the author mentions incomplete?

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?

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