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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 the ultimate means of defending one's honor?
(a) Debating the cause before equals.
(b) Distributing the truth in printed form.
(c) Going to court.
(d) Dueling.

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

3. Who was the head of a colonial household?
(a) The oldest grandfather.
(b) The parents.
(c) The patriarch.
(d) The matriarch.

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

5. Who wrote the book "The Idle Man"?
(a) David Dudley.
(b) James Kent.
(c) Samuel Morse.
(d) Richard Henry Dana.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many American whiskey distilleries were there in 1830?

2. Who said, "the attracting force of universal love" existed in all people?

3. In colonial America, who was rescued from poverty as a fourteen-year-old boy, only to become one of Virginia's most distinguished leaders?

4. Why was poverty considered a virtue for common colonial people?

5. What was the ideology of the Enlightenment?

(see the answer key)

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