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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 characteristic separated patricians from plebeians?
(a) Physical labor.
(b) Income.
(c) Education.
(d) Birth status.

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

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

4. Who vigorously denounced the Stamp Act riots in 1765?
(a) James Otis.
(b) Henry Laurens.
(c) Thomas Hutchison.
(d) Daniel Moore.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What would eventually secure the people's right to participate in government?

2. In colonial America, what were women considered from a legal standpoint?

3. Historically, what kinds of men are guilty for all wars and tyrannies?

4. What was it called when Ben Franklin appointed his friends and family to official positions after he became Deputy Postmaster General of North America?

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

(see the answer key)

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