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

2. In colonial America, what were women considered from a legal standpoint?
(a) They were possessions.
(b) They were dependent.
(c) They were non-people.
(d) They were independent.

3. What percentage of 18th century colonial Americans were employed in farming?
(a) 95%.
(b) 80%.
(c) 85%.
(d) 90%.

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

5. At the middle of the 18th century, what did many revolutionary leaders feel the colonies still needed?
(a) A constitutional government.
(b) A standing army.
(c) A President.
(d) Monarchial control.

Short Answer Questions

1. What percent of the American colonial population was poor?

2. In colonial America, what was commonly manufactured in enormous quantities by the farming population?

3. What was the ideology of the Enlightenment?

4. In colonial America, which pairs of words were "opposites and irreconcilable"?

5. How did colonial Americans look on black slavery?

(see the answer key)

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