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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1, Chapter 3 Searching for the Facts.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In 1753, into what debate does the Earl of Hillsborough enter?
(a) Whether to create a national census.
(b) Whether to allow people to emigrate to the colonies.
(c) Whether to create a new nation out of the colonies.
(d) Whether Great Britain should stay in control of the colonies.

2. How much regard is there for human suffering and rights?
(a) A great amount of.
(b) Some.
(c) Much.
(d) Little.

3. Why is the data source that the author mentions incomplete?
(a) It includes only information about those who are indentured servants.
(b) It includes only information for England and Scotland.
(c) It includes only information about males.
(d) It includes only information about life after emigration.

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

5. After 1760 and the end of the war in North America, what happens to the colonies?
(a) They stay the same.
(b) They shrink.
(c) They expand.
(d) They become less risky.

Short Answer Questions

1. After registering, were vessels free to pick up passengers without registering them?

2. Into where does the population of the colonies spread?

3. Why does this proclamation aim to slow expansion?

4. Why does Tompkyns soon hire an extra clerk?

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

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