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

2. 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 charity to the poor.
(c) He owed service to society.
(d) He owed money to society.

3. When was the Virgina constitution written?
(a) 1778.
(b) 1774.
(c) 1776.
(d) 1775.

4. What was democracy considered in the 18th century?
(a) A technical term of political theory.
(b) A present condition of American life.
(c) A utopian term or society's hope.
(d) An impossible accomplishment to be dismissed.

5. Who said, "We see with other eyes; we hear with other ears"?
(a) Thomas Paine.
(b) John Adams.
(c) Lord Chesterfield.
(d) Thomas Jefferson.

Short Answer Questions

1. In colonial America, how did parents view their power as parents?

2. When did the Seven Years War take place?

3. What happened in colonial America when more and more people demanded land?

4. What did John Adams consider to be the main mark of a gentleman?

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?

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