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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2, Chapter 5 Identities and Motivations: The Dual Emigration.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does John Powell, an undersecretary of state for the colonies, suggest?
(a) Emigration be difficult and expensive.
(b) A statistical assessment of emigration be done to see how Britain was affected.
(c) Emigration be halted.
(d) A statistical assessment of those who do not emigrate.

2. In 1753, into what debate does the Earl of Hillsborough enter?
(a) Whether to create a new nation out of the colonies.
(b) Whether to allow people to emigrate to the colonies.
(c) Whether Great Britain should stay in control of the colonies.
(d) Whether to create a national census.

3. The ages of the emigrants tended to concentrate around what ages?
(a) 10-15.
(b) 20-24.
(c) 30-34.
(d) 25-30.

4. The overwhelming majority of the individuals emigrating gave their destinations as mainland North American colonies south of where?
(a) New York.
(b) Massachusetts.
(c) Nova Scotia.
(d) North Carolina.

5. How much regard is there for human suffering and rights?
(a) Little.
(b) Much.
(c) A great amount of.
(d) Some.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the information handled at these sites?

2. Do those in the colonies have to struggle to maintain the forms of civilized existence that were present elsewhere?

3. These characteristics are shared with other societies, but is America's way of life unique?

4. What information is sometimes estimated by the customs officials?

5. What happens to the bill for which the Earl of Hillsborough fought?

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