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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did the original American colonists pride themselves as being?
(a) Righteous with values and morals.
(b) Fortunate with possessions and families.
(c) Patriots with abilties and drives.
(d) Free men with rights and liberties.

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

4. What was the most radical change brought about by the Revolution?
(a) The upper class must share their status with commoners.
(b) Common people had the same opportunities as the upper class.
(c) The upper class no longer felt superior.
(d) Common people no longer felt inferior.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In colonial America, what was a self-made man called?

2. Who was an important patron of Ben Franklin?

3. In colonial America, a person who didn't have to work for a living still held what responsibility?

4. What was it called when Ben Franklin appointed his friends and family to official positions after he became Deputy Postmaster General of North America?

5. How were domestic servants treated in colonial America as compared to Europe at that same time?

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