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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. The managers often fleeced applicants and sometimes did what to poor women?
(a) Fired them.
(b) Trapped them in prostitution.
(c) Stole from them.
(d) Ignored them.

2. What does the Earl of Hillsborough grasp?
(a) The positive effects expansion has on Great Britain.
(b) The implications of the westward expansion and emigration.
(c) The importance of the colonies.
(d) The weaknesses found in the colonies.

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

4. When Britain took over Nova Scotia, what did it do with the settlers there?
(a) The imprisoned them.
(b) They taught them English.
(c) They forced their culture on them.
(d) They deported the entire Acadian population to various points south.

5. Can the precise difference between the actual numbers of emigrants and between the Register's totals be established?
(a) No.
(b) Maybe.
(c) Yes, in a few years.
(d) Yes.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who probably convinced James Hogg to lead and organize a group of emigrants?

3. The lawlessness and danger of the Highlands convinced Hogg to do what?

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

5. The largest occupation category is what?

(see the answer key)

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