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

2. During the years in question, how many huge areas of land were claimed by the colony of New York and were opened to settlement?
(a) Four.
(b) Three.
(c) Ten.
(d) Two.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When do the first of these offices appear?

2. How might garrisons and roads be created?

3. Efforts are being made to exploit and populate the coastal lands of what states?

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

5. The first settlers into the new British territory began in what year?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Britain takes over Nova Scotia? What is the reason for this?

2. Who first inspected the province? What did they see?

3. What does the author say about East Florida?

4. What is one way that West Florida differs from East Florida? Is this good? Why or why not?

5. What is extraordinary about the cases that have been examined?

6. On what do merchants and their agents rely? Why?

7. What is known about those who voyaged to the American colonies?

8. How were these new lands divided?

9. What does the author say about the intelligence part of this network?

10. How else do merchants recruit workers?

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