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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 4, Chapter 12 Failure in Xanadu.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. A much smaller percentage was going where?
(a) To Canada and the West Indies.
(b) To Mexico and the West Indies.
(c) To North Carolina and New York.
(d) To Canada and Nova Scotia.

2. What area proved to be most attractive to land speculators and investors?
(a) West Florida.
(b) Mississippi.
(c) East Florida.
(d) Alabama.

3. The reports from the customs officials show 9,868 individuals leaving for North America from December, 1773 to March, 1776. Why must this number must be adjusted?
(a) The customs officials did not count correctly.
(b) One year is left out of the count.
(c) Many women are pregnant.
(d) Not all travelers are emigrants.

4. In the provinces, is there mass exodus anywhere in Britain?
(a) Some.
(b) No.
(c) In some provinces.
(d) Yes.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What has long existed in the silk industry?

3. What other jobs had also become unstable?

4. Bailyn compares the Register's totals to notices of ships' arrivals in North America and finds what?

5. Where is the silk industry developed in the late seventeenth century?

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