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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapter 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was critical to the success of colonial American office holders?
(a) Social respectability.
(b) Personal accountability.
(c) Stable family life.
(d) Freedom from debt.

2. Who wrote "The Religion of Nature Delineated"?
(a) Thomas Paine.
(b) William Wollaston.
(c) Thomas Jefferson.
(d) Lord Chesterfield.

3. What religious belief did Thomas Jefferson and Ben Franklin hold?
(a) Anglican.
(b) Deist.
(c) Puritan.
(d) Christian.

4. What was the main consideration for a colonial man to be considered a gentleman?
(a) He must be a member of a political party and the militia.
(b) He must be free from material and intellectual want.
(c) He must be a married man with good standing in the community.
(d) He must be a land owner and a church member.

5. What did monarchists hold as extremely important?
(a) Monarchy and enlightenment.
(b) Liberty and independence.
(c) Counterculture and reorganization.
(d) Peace and order.

Short Answer Questions

1. Originally in colonial America, how were gentlemen to treat inferiors and subordinates?

2. What characteristic of their heritage did colonial Americans in New England cling to?

3. How did non-English colonial Americans feel about the monarchy?

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

5. What percentage of northern colonists were aristocrats?

(see the answer key)

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