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

2. In colonial America, a person who didn't have to work for a living still held what responsibility?
(a) He owed charity to the poor.
(b) He owed money to society.
(c) He owed service to society.
(d) He owed jobs to the unemployed.

3. When first offered, why did Ben Franklin say he would not accept the military rank of colonel?
(a) He wasn't a gentleman.
(b) He didn't have enough money.
(c) He didn't believe in the military.
(d) He felt he should be a general.

4. Who was the most popular and powerful man in Massachusetts during the last quarter of the 18th century?
(a) Henry McCulloch.
(b) John Hancock.
(c) Thomas Hutchinson.
(d) Ben Franklin.

5. What was critical to the success of colonial American office holders?
(a) Social respectability.
(b) Freedom from debt.
(c) Personal accountability.
(d) Stable family life.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many loyalists left the colonies during the revolution?

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

3. Who did the American colonists blame when the wrong people held office?

4. Who drew up the Virginia Declaration of Rights?

5. Who was the speaker of the House of Burgess in 1766?

(see the answer key)

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