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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A had claimed the right to levy taxes.
B were petitioning the king to charter new colonies to the west.
C felt little loyalty to the English government.
D consisted of colonists all approved by royal governors.
E existed only to implement the policies of the English Parliament.
Question #2
A accepted a plan for a colonial union under British authority.
B issued an order for the arrest of all colonists loyal to the king.
C agreed to end colonial boycotts of British trade.
D proposed that the colonies tax themselves at Parliament’s demand.
E called for the repeal of all oppressive legislation passed since 1763.
Question #3
A took place in response to Boston’s turning away of several British merchant ships from the harbor.
B took place after Bostonians failed to turn away ships laden with tea and shocked the other colonies into isolating Massachusetts.
C triggered acts of resistance in other colonial cities and took place after Bostonians failed to turn away ships laden with tea.
D frightened both sides in the conflict and triggered a year of relative peace.
E shocked the other colonies into isolating Massachusetts.
Question #4
A the king spoke to Parliament on behalf of the American colonies.
B each American colony was allowed one non-voting representative in Parliament.
C the American colonies were represented in Parliament.
D the American colonies were represented by the courts.
E the American colonies had no claim to any political representation.
Question #5
A led to Paul Revere’s midnight ride of warning.
B resulted in the death of several British soldiers.
C turned Paul Revere into a martyr for the cause of colonial independence.
D included a trial in which British soldiers were convicted of murder.
E was transformed by some colonists into a symbol of British oppression.
Question #6
A actually affected only a few New England merchants.
B provided much needed revenue to the American colonies.
C was consistent with traditional parliamentary efforts to regulate commerce.
D required the consent of the colonial assemblies before going into effect.
E helped to unite the colonies in opposition to the English government.
Question #7
A encouraged settlement of the western edge of the colonies.
B disrupted England’s western trade in the colonies.
C was supported by many Indian tribal groups.
D led to renewed conflict with the remaining French colonists in the West.
E was generally effective.
Question #8
A France agreed to pay England for the cost of the war.
B France surrendered New Orleans and Canada to the British.
C England acquired all French naval vessels docked in North American ports.
D France ceded all of its Caribbean colonies to England.
E France ceded Canada and all of its claims to land east of the Mississippi River, except New Orleans, to Great Britain.
Question #9
A ended King William’s War.
B slowed England’s western expansion of its American colonies.
C transferred territory from the English to the French in the Caribbean.
D was a considerable victory for Spain in North America.
E transferred territory from the French to the English in North America.
Question #10
A French, the colonists, and the Spanish.
B English, the Iroquois, and the Spanish.
C French, the Spanish, and the English.
D colonists, the English, and the Spanish.
E Iroquois, the English, and the French.