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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. Bailyn compares the Register's totals to notices of ships' arrivals in North America and finds what?
(a) The Register's totals account for probably around one-fifth of the total number of British emigrants.
(b) The Register's totals account for probably around three-fifths of the total number of British emigrants.
(c) The Register's totals account for probably around two-fifths of the total number of British emigrants.
(d) The Register's totals account for probably around four-fifths of the total number of British emigrants.

2. A much smaller percentage was going where?
(a) To Mexico and the West Indies.
(b) To Canada and Nova Scotia.
(c) To North Carolina and New York.
(d) To Canada and the West Indies.

3. What types of groups of emigrants leave steadily over the months for North America?
(a) Small.
(b) Large.
(c) Medium.
(d) Very large.

4. How is the information handled at these sites?
(a) The same.
(b) Not well.
(c) Almost the same.
(d) Differently.

5. The magnitude of these developments was __________________ in these years than they had been in the preceding years.
(a) Greater.
(b) Slightly less.
(c) Less than.
(d) The same.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In the pre-Revolutionary years, many people emigrated from where?

3. Eighteenth century America was _____________________________.

4. Most of these vessels listed were probably engaged in commercial voyages and carried passengers for what reason?

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

(see the answer key)

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