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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 5, Chapter 14 North Carolina: The Wreck of the Bachelor.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where are deliberately organized emigrant vessels more common?
(a) In Northern English and Northern Irish ports.
(b) In Southern English and French ports.
(c) In Northern English and Scottish ports.
(d) In Southern English and Irish ports.

2. What made this form of payment difficult?
(a) All banks may not cash the check.
(b) The bills may get lost.
(c) The seller has to estimate the worth of the trade goods.
(d) The money may not be accepted everywhere.

3. To find the types of workers that were needed, merchants and their agents relied on public notifications. What are important focuses of these notifications?
(a) Theatrical houses.
(b) Opera houses.
(c) Brothels.
(d) Public houses.

4. What do buyers also have to consider when making a purchase?
(a) Age and gender.
(b) The intelligence of the servant.
(c) The personality of the servant.
(d) Encumbrances like other family members and the character of the servants.

5. By 1775, it is estimated that one in every ____________ of the people in this city was a servant.
(a) Eight.
(b) Seven.
(c) Six.
(d) Five.

Short Answer Questions

1. The importation of workers from where had begun in 1714?

2. These characteristics are shared with other societies, but is America's way of life unique?

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

4. Is large-scale land speculation new in North America?

5. Is the movement to the colonies a patternless roaming?

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