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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapter 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who strove to undermine the gentry's distinctiveness and privileges by emphasizing their similarity to common people?
(a) George Warner.
(b) Matthew Lyon.
(c) Abraham Bishop.
(d) William Drayton.

2. Within the colonial family unit, what right did adult children demand?
(a) To choose their own employment.
(b) To strike out on their own.
(c) To be responsible for themselves.
(d) To choose their own spouses.

3. What percent of colonial Americans were loyalists?
(a) 10%.
(b) 15%.
(c) 20%.
(d) 5%.

4. When did the first American Congress meet?
(a) 1786.
(b) 1789.
(c) 1788.
(d) 1787.

5. What sail maker spoke for all industrious working men in 1797?
(a) Matthew Lyon.
(b) George Warner.
(c) Abraham Bishop.
(d) William Drayton.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the late 1760s, who dismissed people's right to participate in government if they didn't have a liberal arts education?

2. Historically, what do good Englishmen do?

3. What circumstance was unknown in small scale colonial American society?

4. Concerning the marketplace, how did colonial American and British aristocracy differ?

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

(see the answer key)

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