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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 was the status of an indentured servant in colonial America?
(a) He was a free agent.
(b) He was working his way up the ladder.
(c) He was the lowest class of society.
(d) He was property.

2. The "Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation" was a key document for which man?
(a) Jonathan Mayhew.
(b) Joseph Addison.
(c) William Livingston.
(d) George Washington.

3. Whose play "Cato" taught George Washington what it meant to be liberal and virtuous?
(a) William Livingston.
(b) Joseph Addison.
(c) Jonathan Mayhew.
(d) Lord Chesterfield.

4. How were domestic servants treated in colonial America as compared to Europe at that same time?
(a) With fewer accommodations and conveniences.
(b) With less free time and days off.
(c) With more brutality and humiliation.
(d) With more kindness and compassion.

5. In colonial America, why did officer holders receive honors and titles?
(a) To solicit money for polictical causes.
(b) To inspire respect and obedience from the common people.
(c) To impress and show up their peers.
(d) To give honor where honor is due.

Short Answer Questions

1. How could a colonial adolescent master a particular skill or learn a discipline?

2. Who said that the mind could be cultivated like a garden?

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

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

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

(see the answer key)

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