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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. What was the status of an indentured servant in colonial America?
(a) He was a free agent.
(b) He was working his way up the ladder.
(c) He was property.
(d) He was the lowest class of society.

2. How were superiors, magistrates, and masters to be honored?
(a) As equals.
(b) As fathers.
(c) As mothers.
(d) As parents.

3. Originally in colonial America, how were gentlemen to treat inferiors and subordinates?
(a) As spouses.
(b) As parents.
(c) As equals.
(d) As children.

4. Who in colonial America had the best opportunity to become wealthy?
(a) Those engaged in supplying goods to the colonists.
(b) Those engaged in colonial politics.
(c) Those engaged in selling arms in the war.
(d) Those engaged in overseas commerce.

5. What was the primary nationality of the American colonists?
(a) Europeans.
(b) Irish.
(c) English.
(d) Scottish.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was poverty considered a virtue for common colonial people?

2. What relationship did the American farmer have with the land he worked?

3. What characteristic separated patricians from plebeians?

4. What kind of colonial churches dominated the first third of the 18th century?

5. How did colonial Americans look on black slavery?

(see the answer key)

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