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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. How did the American colonies react to the intrusion of royal authority in 1763?
(a) Didn't accept it.
(b) Asked for it.
(c) Welcomed it.
(d) Ignored it.

2. How did John Locke view a child's mind?
(a) As moldable as clay.
(b) As foolish until educated.
(c) As a blank slate.
(d) As useless and unformed.

3. How did the grandest colonial American estates compare to traditional British estates?
(a) There were much larger.
(b) They were worth more.
(c) They were much smaller.
(d) They were about the same size.

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

5. Who said, "We see with other eyes; we hear with other ears"?
(a) John Adams.
(b) Thomas Jefferson.
(c) Lord Chesterfield.
(d) Thomas Paine.

Short Answer Questions

1. After retiring, what does Ben Franklin do that later embarrasses him?

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

3. What did Ben Franklin say about government?

4. How did colonial Americans look on black slavery?

5. What characteristic of their heritage did colonial Americans in New England cling to?

(see the answer key)

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