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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 average ages for immigrants to the colonies range from a low of ________________ to a high of 40.5 for Canada.
(a) 27.8 for New York.
(b) 18.7 for North Carolina.
(c) 20.5 for Massachusetts.
(d) 15. 3 for Virginia.

2. Why might land speculators not be interested in this land?
(a) It is hot and treacherous.
(b) It is far from the other colonies.
(c) It is obscure and unglamorous.
(d) It is dangerous.

3. The flow of individuals into New York and North Carolina seem to form small communities composed largely of _________ working the land.
(a) Families.
(b) Individuals.
(c) Couples.
(d) Men.

4. Describe the Gulf shore.
(a) Mineral rich soil and fertile.
(b) Sandy and infertile.
(c) Sandy, yet fertile.
(d) Wooded and hilly.

5. What is the result of this collection?
(a) It explains what is faulty about Great Britain.
(b) It illuminates the essential characteristics of the emigration.
(c) It illuminates what life is like after emigration.
(d) It gives some basic information about those who emigrate.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much regard is there for human suffering and rights?

2. In 1772, what does De Brahm present to the King?

3. The first settlers into the new British territory began in what year?

4. What region has only a small need for additional workers?

5. Where is the silk industry developed in the late seventeenth century?

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