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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do these first settlers go?
(a) The swampland found along what is now called Aligator Alley.
(b) The fertile land around Lake Okeechobee.
(c) The sandy beaches along the Atlantic.
(d) The fertile upper valley of the Tombigbee and Alabama rivers.

2. What is the most common form of payment?
(a) Cash.
(b) Trade in goods.
(c) Bills of exchange.
(d) Checks.

3. Detailed records connected to the Register are __________.
(a) Plentiful.
(b) Somewhat unusual.
(c) Rare.
(d) In abundance.

4. In the years before the Revolution, there were at least thirty-eight colonial merchant firms dealing in what nationality of servants?
(a) German.
(b) British.
(c) French.
(d) Swedish.

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

6. For what are buyers looking?
(a) The youngest and most attractive servants.
(b) The healthiest and hardest working servants.
(c) The healthiest, most skilled at the lowest price for the longest commitment time.
(d) The servants with the most experience.

7. The managers often fleeced applicants and sometimes did what to poor women?
(a) Fired them.
(b) Ignored them.
(c) Trapped them in prostitution.
(d) Stole from them.

8. Archibald Menzies decides that he had found the perfect race of people to populate Florida. What race is this?
(a) The Greeks.
(b) The Italians.
(c) The Hungarians.
(d) The Turks.

9. What is one way that West Florida differs from East Florida?
(a) The colony is adjacent to Italy's territory of the trans-Mississippi west.
(b) The colony is adjacent to France's territory of the trans-Mississippi west.
(c) The colony is adjacent to Spain's territory of the trans-Mississippi west.
(d) The colony is adjacent to Portugal's territory of the trans-Mississippi west.

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

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

12. How long had the connection between the Highlands and North Carolina been in place?
(a) Almost a quarter of a century.
(b) Almost a century.
(c) Almost half a century.
(d) Almost a decade.

13. What do buyers also have to consider when making a purchase?
(a) Age and gender.
(b) The intelligence of the servant.
(c) The personality of the servant.
(d) Encumbrances like other family members and the character of the servants.

14. How does communication between inland North Carolina and the Scottish Highlands remain strong?
(a) Strong leaders exist in both regions.
(b) A great deal of travel takes place between both locations.
(c) There is a constant flow of emigrants from Scottland.
(d) Letters pass between family members on both sides of the ocean.

15. When do the first of these offices appear?
(a) In the eighteenth century.
(b) In the sixteenth century.
(c) In the seventeenth century.
(d) In the fifteenth century.

Short Answer Questions

1. Grants that are given are revocable unless _____________ of the land was populated within three years with one person for every hundred acres.

2. What does the Register also record?

3. What is Jonas Brown's main business?

4. All those who voyaged to the American colonies were what?

5. The lawlessness and danger of the Highlands convinced Hogg to do what?

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