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

2. What closes the trans-Appalachian west, except to licensed traders, and created the colonies of Quebec, East and West Florida?
(a) The Proclamation of the Americas.
(b) The Proclamation of the 1773.
(c) The Proclamation of 1763.
(d) The Proclamation of the Colonies.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the major problem of this survey?

2. What is commonly believed by 1773?

3. How is the information handled at these sites?

4. As what do the colonies become known?

5. What happens to the bill for which the Earl of Hillsborough fought?

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