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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. When meeting someone new in colonial America, what was required for confidence in dealing with that person?
(a) Common interests.
(b) A mutual acquaintance.
(c) Compatible personalities.
(d) A letter of introduction.

2. What was democracy considered in the 18th century?
(a) A technical term of political theory.
(b) A utopian term or society's hope.
(c) An impossible accomplishment to be dismissed.
(d) A present condition of American life.

3. When did the first American Congress meet?
(a) 1789.
(b) 1786.
(c) 1788.
(d) 1787.

4. The "Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation" was a key document for which man?
(a) William Livingston.
(b) Jonathan Mayhew.
(c) George Washington.
(d) Joseph Addison.

5. How was high office in colonial America considered?
(a) As a profession and profit.
(b) As an honor and privilege.
(c) As a sacrifice and burden.
(d) As a right and responsibility.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was an important patron of Ben Franklin?

2. Who identified the source of the revolution as the dissolution of family authority?

3. What percent of colonial Americans were loyalists?

4. Who became the richest man in Gloucester, R.I., just a few years before the revolution?

5. What most alarmed the American colonial gentry of the 1760s and 1770s?

(see the answer key)

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