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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. What is John Tompkyns' job?
(a) He organizes the paperwork.
(b) He sends the reports to the various inspection sites.
(c) He files all of the paperwork.
(d) He inspects and corrects each incoming report and then copies the information onto large uniform sheets.

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

3. What happens to the bill for which the Earl of Hillsborough fought?
(a) It is modified.
(b) It is accepted.
(c) It is considered.
(d) It is defeated.

4. At this time, most individuals concerned with emigration focused on what?
(a) Personal losses.
(b) A sense of fear felt by those who stay in Great Britain.
(c) A loss in a sense of nationalism.
(d) Demographic and economic losses.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does John Powell, an undersecretary of state for the colonies, suggest?

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

3. What information is sometimes estimated by the customs officials?

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

5. As what do the colonies become known?

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