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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The beginning point for this migration was where?
(a) The port of Boston.
(b) The port of New York.
(c) The port of Maine.
(d) The port of Albany.

2. What is surprising about the expeditions previously mentioned?
(a) The expeditions were surprisingly successful.
(b) The settlers were surprisingly wealthy.
(c) The settlers were surprisingly prepared for colony life.
(d) The surviving records are surprisingly complete.

3. What is happening by 1770?
(a) A large, somewhat uncontrolled flow of people is moving into the province.
(b) A small, steady flow of people is moving into the province.
(c) A large, steady flow of people is moving into the province.
(d) A small, irregular flow of people is moving into the province.

4. What other location would sellers avoid?
(a) Places that are difficult for buyers to get to.
(b) Places that make the servants uncomfortable.
(c) Places that are too close to the water.
(d) Places that are too far inland.

5. When is there a wild land boom in Nova Scotia?
(a) The mid-Forties.
(b) The mid-Fifties.
(c) The mid-Thirties.
(d) The mid-Sixties.

6. What do these unscrupulous recruiters do to impoverished victims?
(a) They induce them to end debt by working hard.
(b) They induce them to pile up debts for housing.
(c) They induce them to lessen their debt by selling their valuables.
(d) They induce them to pile up debts for food, clothing, and drink.

7. After ten years, what would happen to any land not populated?
(a) It would revert back to the land speculator.
(b) It would become the land of the Native Americans.
(c) It would revert back to the crown.
(d) It would become the land of Spain.

8. What is the most valuable form of payment for a servant?
(a) Trade goods.
(b) Bills of exchange payable on demand from well-known and financially stable British firms.
(c) Dollar bills.
(d) Checks.

9. Who is appointed in the south to create a map?
(a) Gerard De Brahm.
(b) Gerry De Vane.
(c) Seth Hammond.
(d) Samuel Holland.

10. Who helps James Hogg by arranging to have a vessel sent north to transport James and his family?
(a) His cousin, Robert Hogg.
(b) His sister, Roberta Hogg.
(c) His brother, Robert Hogg.
(d) His father, Roger Hogg.

11. In 1772, what does De Brahm present to the King?
(a) A special dinner.
(b) A large sum of money.
(c) A huge map.
(d) A present.

12. Brown, his son, Thomas, and James Gordon embarked on what?
(a) A sheme to open a pottery factory in North Carolina.
(b) A scheme to settle the Ceded Lands.
(c) A scheme to settle swamp land in Florida.
(d) A scheme to purchase their own colony.

13. One part of this network is ______________ later called register offices.
(a) Intellectual offices.
(b) Registrar offices.
(c) Intelligence offices.
(d) Smart offices.

14. How are merchants able to barter with overseers?
(a) The overseers will steal from the merchants.
(b) The merchants barter with trade goods.
(c) The overseers are eager to unload their charges.
(d) They are willing to give the overseers a great deal of money.

15. During the seventeenth century, who are the only people who would continue to use this service?
(a) Those who are desperate or naive.
(b) Those who are young.
(c) Those who do not speak English.
(d) Those who are new to the country.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Register documents how many emigrant voyages from this village, containing 155 emigrants, in total?

2. Besides not making money quickly, why else does a seller not want the "goods" to remain in his care?

3. When do the first of these offices appear?

4. The beginning steps of opening the land to settlement are _________.

5. Where are the servants and convicts brought to be inspected by potential buyers?

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