View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why was poverty considered a virtue for common colonial people?
(a) It kept them satisfied.
(b) It kept them submissive.
(c) It kept them industrious.
(d) It kept them subjected.

3. How could a colonial adolescent master a particular skill or learn a discipline?
(a) Learn from a sibling.
(b) Learn from parents.
(c) Be indentured or go to school.
(d) Be privately tutored.

4. What percentage of southern colonists were aristocrats?
(a) 4-5%.
(b) 5-6%.
(c) 2-3%.
(d) 7-8%.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. At the middle of the 18th century, what did many revolutionary leaders feel the colonies still needed?

2. Who vigorously denounced the Stamp Act riots in 1765?

3. What was the ideology of the Enlightenment?

4. How did fathers among colonial gentry control their adult children?

5. What did monarchists hold as extremely important?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 200 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample