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

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

3. This raw data that is collected by English and Scottish port officials is sent where?
(a) To one customs board in London.
(b) To three customs boards in London, Edinburgh, and Dublin.
(c) To two customs boards in London and Edinburgh.
(d) To one customs board in Edinburgh.

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

5. Eighteenth century America was _____________________________.
(a) Much like the British Isles.
(b) Ahead of its time.
(c) More industrial, urban, and humane than most of Europe.
(d) Pre-industrial, pre-urban, and pre-humanitarian.

Short Answer Questions

1. As what do the colonies become known?

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

3. Where are deliberately organized emigrant vessels more common?

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

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

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