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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How else are notices circulated?
(a) Via newspapers and circulating handbills.
(b) Via posters.
(c) Via magazines.
(d) Via billboards.

2. What is unique about James Hogg's departure for America?
(a) The records that survived.
(b) His trip is very simple.
(c) The records were almost completely destroyed.
(d) His trip is very organized.

3. What do these unscrupulous recruiters do to impoverished victims?
(a) They induce them to lessen their debt by selling their valuables.
(b) They induce them to pile up debts for housing.
(c) They induce them to pile up debts for food, clothing, and drink.
(d) They induce them to end debt by working hard.

4. What accounts for a major part of the migration to North America in the Register?
(a) The lack of need for labor after 1760.
(b) The demand for labor after 1760.
(c) The demand for labor before 1760.
(d) The lack of labor available after 1760.

5. In the period before the American Revolution, what is the northeastern most point in the arc of borderlands in the outer boundaries of British communities in North America?
(a) Massachusetts.
(b) Nova Scotia.
(c) Maine.
(d) New York.

6. Where do these first settlers go?
(a) The fertile land around Lake Okeechobee.
(b) The sandy beaches along the Atlantic.
(c) The fertile upper valley of the Tombigbee and Alabama rivers.
(d) The swampland found along what is now called Aligator Alley.

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

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

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

10. Later investigations of West Florida would show what?
(a) The dangerous swampland.
(b) The wooded forests.
(c) The rich delta lands.
(d) The sandy and infertile beaches.

11. The Register documents how many emigrant voyages from this village, containing 155 emigrants, in total?
(a) Six.
(b) Two.
(c) Four.
(d) Eight.

12. From where is James Hogg?
(a) Dublin in Ireland.
(b) East Lothian in the Scottish Highlands.
(c) Edinburgh in Scottland.
(d) East Lothian in the Scottish Lowlands.

13. What is one way that West Florida differs from East Florida?
(a) The colony is adjacent to Portugal's territory of the trans-Mississippi west.
(b) The colony is adjacent to Spain's territory of the trans-Mississippi west.
(c) The colony is adjacent to France's territory of the trans-Mississippi west.
(d) The colony is adjacent to Italy's territory of the trans-Mississippi west.

14. Efforts are being made to exploit and populate the coastal lands of what states?
(a) Florida, Mississippi and Alabama.
(b) North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia.
(c) New York, Delaware and Maryland.
(d) Maine, Massachusetts and Rhode Island.

15. What is surprising about the expeditions previously mentioned?
(a) The settlers were surprisingly prepared for colony life.
(b) The surviving records are surprisingly complete.
(c) The expeditions were surprisingly successful.
(d) The settlers were surprisingly wealthy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Register bring into focus?

2. Where does James Hogg try to settle 200 Scottish Highlanders?

3. Brown, his son, Thomas, and James Gordon embarked on what?

4. How long had the connection between the Highlands and North Carolina been in place?

5. Besides not making money quickly, why else does a seller not want the "goods" to remain in his care?

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