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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did John Locke view a child's mind?
(a) As moldable as clay.
(b) As foolish until educated.
(c) As useless and unformed.
(d) As a blank slate.

2. In colonial America, who was rescued from poverty as a fourteen-year-old boy, only to become one of Virginia's most distinguished leaders?
(a) Charles Wilson Peale.
(b) Edmund Pendleton.
(c) Daniel Dulagy.
(d) Benjamin Robinson.

3. How did the American colonies react to the intrusion of royal authority in 1763?
(a) Welcomed it.
(b) Didn't accept it.
(c) Ignored it.
(d) Asked for it.

4. What percentage of southern colonists were aristocrats?
(a) 5-6%.
(b) 7-8%.
(c) 2-3%.
(d) 4-5%.

5. How did Baltimore, Norfolk, and Alexandria benefit from increased colonial marketing?
(a) More money is spent in them.
(b) They became booming ports.
(c) They became destinations for immigrants.
(d) They attracted more lucrative businesses.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kinds of laws were proposed in colonial America to curb spending?

2. Within the colonial family unit, what right did adult children demand?

3. What did the colonial American courts treat more seriously than violent acts?

4. Who wrote about the irreligious "Wild Woods" of the Carolina back country?

5. What supported the colonial southern plantations that made networks of influence unnecessary?

(see the answer key)

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