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

2. In the months that followed, how many emigrants do customs officials interview?
(a) Hundreds.
(b) Tens of thousands.
(c) Thousands.
(d) Dozens.

3. Do those in the colonies have to struggle to maintain the forms of civilized existence that were present elsewhere?
(a) Yes.
(b) Not much.
(c) A little.
(d) No.

4. Most emigrants traveled ____________.
(a) In pairs.
(b) Alone.
(c) With families.
(d) In groups.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is commonly believed by 1773?

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

3. Where are deliberately organized emigrant vessels more common?

4. Most of these vessels listed were probably engaged in commercial voyages and carried passengers for what reason?

5. At certain times, vessels would carry _________ numbers of emigrants.

(see the answer key)

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