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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapter 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who spoke for and was responsible for servants, slaves, and tenants?
(a) They were responsible for themselves.
(b) No one was responsible for them.
(c) The colonial government.
(d) The head of the household.

2. Who said that the mind could be cultivated like a garden?
(a) Thomas Paine.
(b) Lord Chesterfield.
(c) Thomas Jefferson.
(d) John Adams.

3. Who rejected "ancient prejudices" that supported hereditary monarchy?
(a) John Locke.
(b) Jonathan Sewell.
(c) Thomas Paine.
(d) Ben Franklin.

4. In colonial America, what was done with a political effigy?
(a) It was burned.
(b) It was hanged.
(c) It was pubically beaten.
(d) It was buried.

5. In colonial America, what were women considered from a legal standpoint?
(a) They were dependent.
(b) They were possessions.
(c) They were non-people.
(d) They were independent.

Short Answer Questions

1. What percent of the American colonial population was poor?

2. Who argued that Britain was an unnatural parent?

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

4. How was the Anglican church part of politics in Britain?

5. Whose Massachusetts family had done missionary work among the Indians?

(see the answer key)

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