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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In colonial America, which pairs of words were "opposites and irreconcilable"?
(a) Indentured and dependency.
(b) Tenant and dependency.
(c) Freedom and religion.
(d) Freedom and dependency.

2. What was the colonial role in the renewed Anglo-French warfare in the 1750s?
(a) They supplied no manpower or resources to any country.
(b) They had no manpower or resources to supply to any country.
(c) They supplied manpower and resources to France.
(d) They supplied manpower and resources to England.

3. When Ben Franklin was a boy, what important man discussed books with him?
(a) William Allen.
(b) William Burnet.
(c) Andrew Hamilton.
(d) James Logan.

4. From which business did Ben Franklin eventually retire?
(a) Printing.
(b) Banking.
(c) Store owner.
(d) Bookbinding.

5. In colonial America, why did officer holders receive honors and titles?
(a) To solicit money for polictical causes.
(b) To impress and show up their peers.
(c) To give honor where honor is due.
(d) To inspire respect and obedience from the common people.

Short Answer Questions

1. How could a colonial adolescent master a particular skill or learn a discipline?

2. At the middle of the 18th century, what did many revolutionary leaders feel the colonies still needed?

3. How did fathers among colonial gentry control their adult children?

4. What religious belief did Thomas Jefferson and Ben Franklin hold?

5. Historically, what kinds of men are guilty for all wars and tyrannies?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did colonial inland trade change after 1745?

2. How was republicanism defined at the time of the American Revolution?

3. Before the revolution, what did the aristocracy think of the common people?

4. How did colonial imports of British goods change the twenty-five years before the Revolution?

5. How did wealthy commoners in the colonies try to gain status as gentlemen?

6. What was the relationship of farmers and merchants in colonial America?

7. What was the thinking of many colonial American Protestants towards child rearing?

8. In colonial America, what was the purpose of the pillory or whipping post?

9. In colonial America, what was an entailed estate?

10. How was individual governmental service defined under the monarchy?

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