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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2, Chapter 4 Magnitudes, Locations, and Flow.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The information sent to where is sent directly to the Treasury in London without any editing or summarization?
(a) Edinburgh.
(b) Dublin.
(c) Paris.
(d) London.

2. What is the major problem of this survey?
(a) Most people cannot write to fill out the paperwork.
(b) Information is given by word of mouth.
(c) There is no legal requirement for vessels carrying emigrants to register with customs.
(d) There are many stowaways.

3. What is commonly believed by 1773?
(a) British emigration was becoming unpopular.
(b) British emigration was leading to depopulation in certain areas of the British Isles.
(c) British emigration was becoming more difficult to do.
(d) British emigration was leading to more wealth for those who stayed behind.

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

5. Do British officials pay much attention at first to the settlement of western lands in America or to emigration from Britain to the colonies?
(a) Yes, a great deal.
(b) No, not at all.
(c) No, not too much.
(d) Yes, somewhat.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the data source that the author mentions incomplete?

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

3. In 1753, into what debate does the Earl of Hillsborough enter?

4. The emigrants listed in the Register sailed to America in how many different vessels?

5. To where do they immigrate?

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