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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hogg decide about the prospective emigrants?
(a) They had to be disease free, be of good character, and be able to pay their freight with extra for accidents.
(b) They had to be Scottish.
(c) They had to be related to him.
(d) They had to be very wealthy.

2. Is large-scale land speculation new in North America?
(a) No.
(b) Somewhat.
(c) Yes.
(d) Maybe.

3. From the buyer's side, the longer he delayed the more likely what would happen?
(a) The prices would fall.
(b) The prices would stay the same.
(c) The seller would get annoyed.
(d) The prices would rise.

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

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

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

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

8. Who are the first to inspect the province of West Florida?
(a) Land speculators.
(b) British politicians.
(c) The French.
(d) Military commanders.

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

10. Maps were needed for the new territory. Who is appointed in the north?
(a) Seth Hammond.
(b) Gerry De Vane.
(c) Gerard De Brahm.
(d) Samuel Holland.

11. Describe the Gulf shore.
(a) Sandy, yet fertile.
(b) Mineral rich soil and fertile.
(c) Wooded and hilly.
(d) Sandy and infertile.

12. The first settlers into the new British territory began in what year?
(a) 1770.
(b) 1776.
(c) 1773.
(d) 1767.

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

14. How would the seller wait when the buyers surveyed the servants?
(a) Sadly.
(b) Anxiously.
(c) Excitedly.
(d) Annoyed.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What accounts for a major part of the migration to North America in the Register?

2. After ten years, what would happen to any land not populated?

3. What does the Register also record?

4. There are successes in land speculation and, as more British become aware of the opportunities, what happens?

5. At almost any time during the spring and fall months, what happens to indentured servants' labor?

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