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