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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was it called when Ben Franklin appointed his friends and family to official positions after he became Deputy Postmaster General of North America?
(a) Paucity.
(b) Patronage.
(c) Prerogativism.
(d) Consequentialism.

3. What relationship did the American farmer have with the land he worked?
(a) He was the owner.
(b) He borrowed it.
(c) He was a tenant.
(d) He lent it.

4. What did Ben Franklin say about government?
(a) It should be obeyed.
(b) It's a necessary evil.
(c) It's a man-made contrivance.
(d) It should be abolished.

5. In colonial America, what was commonly manufactured in enormous quantities by the farming population?
(a) Preserves.
(b) Cloth.
(c) Rope.
(d) Farm equipment.

Short Answer Questions

1. What would eventually secure the people's right to participate in government?

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

3. When Ben Franklin was a boy, what important man discussed books with him?

4. What was the main source of instability and anxiety in revolutionary America?

5. Who said, "Idolatry to Monarchs and servility of Aristocratic Pride was never so totally eradicated from so many in so short a time"?

(see the answer key)

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