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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapter 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who strove to undermine the gentry's distinctiveness and privileges by emphasizing their similarity to common people?
(a) George Warner.
(b) Matthew Lyon.
(c) Abraham Bishop.
(d) William Drayton.

3. What was the main source of instability and anxiety in revolutionary America?
(a) Ostentatious aristocracy.
(b) Pervasive equality.
(c) Religious dissent.
(d) Conspicuous consumption.

4. In the late 1760s, who dismissed people's right to participate in government if they didn't have a liberal arts education?
(a) William Drayton.
(b) Matthew Lyon.
(c) George Warner.
(d) Abraham Bishop.

5. When was the Virgina constitution written?
(a) 1775.
(b) 1776.
(c) 1774.
(d) 1778.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the 1790s, who labeled gentry as men of idleness, extravagance, and dissipation?

2. In colonial America, a person who didn't have to work for a living still held what responsibility?

3. Who said that after the revolution people were changed form subjects to citizens?

4. In colonial America, what was done with a political effigy?

5. Who said that the secret of America's prosperity was the celebration of work?

(see the answer key)

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