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

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

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

4. What kind of colonial churches dominated the first third of the 18th century?
(a) Independent congregation supported churches.
(b) Organizational and society supported churches.
(c) Centralized state supported churches.
(d) Denominationally supported churches.

5. How was intermarriage and inbreeding looked upon by colonial gentry?
(a) It is forbidden.
(b) It is encouraged.
(c) It is illegal.
(d) It is commonplace.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What was the highest class of British society called?

4. What was another name for colonial gentlemen?

5. What was the most radical change brought about by the Revolution?

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