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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was another name for colonial commoners?
(a) Serfs.
(b) Egalitarians.
(c) Plebians.
(d) Patricians.

2. How was high office in colonial America considered?
(a) As an honor and privilege.
(b) As a right and responsibility.
(c) As a profession and profit.
(d) As a sacrifice and burden.

3. In colonial America, who were the protectors and creditors of common farmers?
(a) The great planters.
(b) The patrons.
(c) The local government.
(d) The merchants.

4. When Ben Franklin was a boy, what important man discussed books with him?
(a) William Burnet.
(b) James Logan.
(c) William Allen.
(d) Andrew Hamilton.

5. In the 18th century, what did the golden age of Roman literature speak about?
(a) Political and social ideals.
(b) Moral and ethical issues.
(c) Religious and emotional decisions.
(d) Scientific and historic discoveries.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who must yield power for a government to be good?

2. What were colonial American rulers always concerned about regarding their positions?

3. What percentage of southern colonists were aristocrats?

4. In colonial America, which pairs of words were "opposites and irreconcilable"?

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

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