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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. What percent of the American colonial population was poor?
(a) 10%.
(b) 20%.
(c) 5%.
(d) 15%.

2. In colonial America, what outweighed the concern for family lineage?
(a) Individual desires of the children.
(b) Individual desires of the father.
(c) Individual desires of the mother.
(d) Individual desires of the head of the household.

3. Who identified the source of the revolution as the dissolution of family authority?
(a) John Locke.
(b) Thomas Jefferson.
(c) John Adams.
(d) Landon Carter.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did colonial Americans look on black slavery?

2. How was high office in colonial America considered?

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

4. In colonial America, what emerged after politics cease to be a contest among prominent families?

5. Within the colonial family unit, what right did adult children demand?

(see the answer key)

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