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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Bailyn's first impression of British life in the years leading up to the American Revolution?
(a) One of simplicity as a few hundred people move to London and a few other ports of exit.
(b) One of complexity as tens of thousands of people in every region in Europe moves to ports of exit.
(c) One of complexity as thousands of people in every region of the country move to ports of exit.
(d) One of simplicity as only those in England move to London, the port of exit.

2. What is the result of this collection?
(a) It illuminates the essential characteristics of the emigration.
(b) It explains what is faulty about Great Britain.
(c) It gives some basic information about those who emigrate.
(d) It illuminates what life is like after emigration.

3. After 1760 and the end of the war in North America, what happens to the colonies?
(a) They shrink.
(b) They expand.
(c) They stay the same.
(d) They become less risky.

4. Why does Tompkyns soon hire an extra clerk?
(a) He is overwhelmed with his job.
(b) He is emigrating to America.
(c) He is sick.
(d) He is tired of his job.

5. In the pre-Revolutionary days, what is the largest urban center in the western world?
(a) Dublin.
(b) Edinburgh.
(c) London.
(d) Paris.

Short Answer Questions

1. English women emigrants were almost always engaged in what sort of work?

2. Was it new that North America had been seen as a place of refuge?

3. What types of groups of emigrants leave steadily over the months for North America?

4. What does Bailyn say about what these patterns show about the migration from Britain to America?

5. The Earl of Hillsborough argues that the colonies are to benefit the kingdom through commerce and the production of goods. What does he think about settling the western lands, regarding this goal?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is done with the raw data from this collection?

2. What does the author discover about the gender of the emigrants?

3. Why must the official totals be adjusted upward?

4. What is Bailyn's first impression of British life in the years leading up to the American Revolution?

5. What is wrong with this survey?

6. What is known about correlation between age and where the emigrants migrated?

7. What does Bailyn say about the vessels traveling to America?

8. What does Bailyn say about where the emigrants migrated the most?

9. What does Bailyn say about the number of people leaving for North America from December 1773 to March 1776 and those who are not emigrants?

10. Who were the people most available for labor?

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