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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. Why was poverty considered a virtue for common colonial people?
(a) It kept them subjected.
(b) It kept them satisfied.
(c) It kept them submissive.
(d) It kept them industrious.

2. Before the revolution, what was labor associated with?
(a) Increased productivity.
(b) Oppression and fear.
(c) Tradition and necessity.
(d) Slavery and servitude.

3. Who wrote the "Spirit of Laws" in 1748?
(a) Hume.
(b) Franklin.
(c) Montesquieu.
(d) Cicero.

4. When Ben Franklin was a boy, what important man discussed books with him?
(a) William Allen.
(b) James Logan.
(c) Andrew Hamilton.
(d) William Burnet.

5. What did colonial religious sects have in common?
(a) They advocated disavowing authority.
(b) They advocated disobeying authority.
(c) They advocated honoring authority.
(d) They advocated controlling authority.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who said that after the revolution people were changed form subjects to citizens?

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

5. What did conservatives say caused the degeneration of standards that were tainting America?

(see the answer key)

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