Voyagers to the West Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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Voyagers to the West Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What information is sometimes estimated by the customs officials?
(a) Gender.
(b) Age.
(c) Trade.
(d) Race.

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

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

4. At certain times, vessels would carry _________ numbers of emigrants.
(a) Large.
(b) An average.
(c) Very small.
(d) Small.

5. The occupations and residences of those emigrating to New York and North Carolina are _____________ the previous colonies.
(a) The same as.
(b) Better than.
(c) Worse than.
(d) Different from.

6. What has long existed in the silk industry?
(a) Happy employees.
(b) Many jobs.
(c) Labor unrest.
(d) The same weaving techniques.

7. Do similar situations exist in other industries in this city?
(a) Yes, but not until later in the century.
(b) No.
(c) Yes.
(d) Yes, but only in a small amount of industries.

8. 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.

9. What does Bailyn say about the force of attraction to North America?
(a) It is powerful for British emigrants.
(b) It is a waste of time for British emigrants.
(c) It is attractive to British emigrants.
(d) It is a a necessary evil for British emigrants.

10. How many ironworks are operating in the colonies at this time?
(a) Over 150.
(b) Over 200.
(c) Over 100.
(d) Over 250.

11. Of the 6,190 emigrants whose occupation is listed, only _____________ listed occupations that were considered "gentle."
(a) 23%.
(b) 45%
(c) 4.5%
(d) 2.3%.

12. Who provided much of the unskilled labor, particularly in the South, for the ironworks?
(a) Indentured servants.
(b) Slaves.
(c) Young children.
(d) Boys.

13. In the pre-Revolutionary years, many people emigrated from where?
(a) England.
(b) France.
(c) The British mainland.
(d) The European continent.

14. Was it new that North America had been seen as a place of refuge?
(a) Maybe.
(b) Somewhat.
(c) Yes.
(d) No.

15. More children below the age of ten and more _________________ departed from Scotland.
(a) Women and girls.
(b) Men and girls.
(c) Men and boys.
(d) Women and boys.

Short Answer Questions

1. Most available for labor are who?

2. Is child labor popular in the silk industry at this time?

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

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

5. A much smaller percentage was going where?

(see the answer keys)

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