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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the 18th century, what did the golden age of Roman literature speak about?
(a) Moral and ethical issues.
(b) Political and social ideals.
(c) Scientific and historic discoveries.
(d) Religious and emotional decisions.

2. Who did the American colonists blame when the wrong people held office?
(a) The voters.
(b) Other officials.
(c) Themselves.
(d) The crown.

3. How did non-English colonial Americans feel about the monarchy?
(a) They had great respect for it.
(b) They hoped it will continue.
(c) They wished it were abolished.
(d) They had no attachment to it.

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

5. How was intermarriage and inbreeding looked upon by colonial gentry?
(a) It is forbidden.
(b) It is encouraged.
(c) It is commonplace.
(d) It is illegal.

6. What spending trend in colonial America did social conservatives condemn?
(a) Speculative spending.
(b) Recreational spending.
(c) Emulation spending.
(d) Foolish spending.

7. In colonial America, who was rescued from poverty as a fourteen-year-old boy, only to become one of Virginia's most distinguished leaders?
(a) Edmund Pendleton.
(b) Benjamin Robinson.
(c) Charles Wilson Peale.
(d) Daniel Dulagy.

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

9. In colonial America, how did parents view their power as parents?
(a) Dictatorship.
(b) Head of a democracy.
(c) Equals within the family.
(d) Limited monarchy.

10. Who bought the small planters tobacco crops rather than taking them on consignment?
(a) Welsh merchant houses.
(b) Scottish merchant houses.
(c) Irish merchant houses.
(d) British merchant houses.

11. Where was Ben Franklin quartered when he sailed to England in 1724?
(a) First class.
(b) With the crew.
(c) With the captain.
(d) Steerage.

12. At the middle of the 18th century, what did many revolutionary leaders feel the colonies still needed?
(a) A President.
(b) A standing army.
(c) Monarchial control.
(d) A constitutional government.

13. How did the grandest colonial American estates compare to traditional British estates?
(a) There were much larger.
(b) They were worth more.
(c) They were much smaller.
(d) They were about the same size.

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

15. What was the ideology of the Enlightenment?
(a) Counterculture.
(b) Rationalism.
(c) Mysticism.
(d) Republicanism.

Short Answer Questions

1. In colonial America, what was absent between centralized and local authorities?

2. How did colonial gentry demonstrate virtue?

3. In colonial America, what was the ultimate means of defending one's honor?

4. What supported the colonial southern plantations that made networks of influence unnecessary?

5. What would eventually secure the people's right to participate in government?

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