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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did colonial gentry demonstrate virtue?
(a) By church attendance and charitable contributions.
(b) By righteous behavior and virtuous living.
(c) By consuming enough to employ the commoners.
(d) By supporting trade schools and farms.

2. What was the colonial role in the renewed Anglo-French warfare in the 1750s?
(a) They supplied no manpower or resources to any country.
(b) They had no manpower or resources to supply to any country.
(c) They supplied manpower and resources to England.
(d) They supplied manpower and resources to France.

3. What did colonial religious sects have in common?
(a) They advocated honoring authority.
(b) They advocated controlling authority.
(c) They advocated disobeying authority.
(d) They advocated disavowing authority.

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

5. In colonial America, what were the aristocracy allowed to engage in that they weren't allowed in Britain?
(a) Retail trade.
(b) Gambling.
(c) Farming.
(d) Use of oaths.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was another name for colonial gentlemen?

2. How was intermarriage and inbreeding looked upon by colonial gentry?

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

4. What percentage of northern colonists were aristocrats?

5. What was the highest level of knowledge of a trade in colonial America?

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