Part 2

Quiz for Document P2-2: Letter from Christen Janzen to His Family (1711)

Reader Quiz

Part 2b

true

Select the best answer for each question. Click the “submit” button for each question to turn in your work. Click the "Previous" button to navigate back if you need to view the textbook.

Question 1

Christen Janzen’s report of the Americans’ treatment of the German immigrants travelling from Virginia to the Carolinas indicates thatA. English colonies were divided by ethnic and religious strife.
B. immigrants from German lands felt welcome and cared for.
C. many Germans were despised as Catholic “outsiders.”
D. Quaker colonists were the most welcoming of the new immigrants.

Question 2

What does Janzen’s letter indicate about gender and demographics in the early Southern colonies?A. Family life predominated in the agricultural society of the early Southern colonies.
B. Mortality rates in the South were higher among women that among men.
C. Very few women had settled in the Carolinas, making marriage prospects difficult.
D. Women worked as indentured servants in large numbers compared to men.

Question 3

Janzen makes an urgent and heartfelt request for financial and material assistance from his family to allow his new wife toA. distill liquor.
B. fire ceramics.
C. play music.
D. weave textiles.

Question 4

Janzen expresses a deep concern that the community in which they lived could be undermined by the lack ofA. educational facilities.
B. financial investment.
C. military preparedness.
D. Religious guidance.

Question 5

Which of the following features of the English colonies does Janzen describe as the most attractive to German immigrants?A. Free and abundant fertile land
B. High culture and sophistication
C. Plentiful commercial goods and leisure
D. Religious liberty and piety