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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. From which business did Ben Franklin eventually retire?
(a) Printing.
(b) Store owner.
(c) Banking.
(d) Bookbinding.

2. How did fathers among colonial gentry control their adult children?
(a) They threathened disinheritance.
(b) They took away their possessions.
(c) They used corporal punishment.
(d) They took them to court.

3. How was intermarriage and inbreeding looked upon by colonial gentry?
(a) It is forbidden.
(b) It is illegal.
(c) It is commonplace.
(d) It is encouraged.

4. What is one way republicans are different from monarchists?
(a) Less subject to revolution.
(b) Less subject to corruption.
(c) More subject to revolution.
(d) More subject to corruption.

5. Who must yield power for a government to be good?
(a) Men interested in politics.
(b) Disinterested men.
(c) Wealthy men.
(d) Men who care about society.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Ben Franklin was a boy, what important man discussed books with him?

2. In colonial America, who was rescued from poverty as a fourteen-year-old boy, only to become one of Virginia's most distinguished leaders?

3. Originally in colonial America, how were gentlemen to treat inferiors and subordinates?

4. What did monarchists hold as extremely important?

5. In colonial America, why did officer holders receive honors and titles?

(see the answer key)

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