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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapter 18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In colonial America, what was absent between centralized and local authorities?
(a) Harmony.
(b) Stability.
(c) Agreement.
(d) Cooperation.

2. What did John Locke write about the common moral sense of every man?
(a) That men are disposed to do bad.
(b) That men are amoral.
(c) That men are disposed to do good.
(d) That men must be taught what is good and bad.

3. In the 1790s, who labeled gentry as men of idleness, extravagance, and dissipation?
(a) Matthew Lyon.
(b) William Drayton.
(c) George Warner.
(d) Abraham Bishop

4. What kinds of laws were proposed in colonial America to curb spending?
(a) Speculative laws.
(b) Pecuniary laws.
(c) Sumptuary laws.
(d) Monetary laws.

5. Who became the richest man in Gloucester, R.I., just a few years before the revolution?
(a) Josiah Quincy.
(b) Moses Cooper.
(c) Thomas Hutchinson.
(d) David Ramsey.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was governor of Massachusetts during the Boston Tea Party?

2. How are people regarded in a hierarchical society?

3. How was high office in colonial America considered?

4. What religious belief did Thomas Jefferson and Ben Franklin hold?

5. In colonial America, what outweighed the concern for family lineage?

(see the answer key)

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