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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. When did the Seven Years War take place?
(a) 1740s.
(b) 1760s.
(c) 1750s.
(d) 1730s.
2. How were domestic servants treated in colonial America as compared to Europe at that same time?
(a) With less free time and days off.
(b) With more kindness and compassion.
(c) With fewer accommodations and conveniences.
(d) With more brutality and humiliation.
3. How could a person be mobile in colonial society?
(a) By earning money and buying status for the new rank.
(b) By marrying into a higher social rank.
(c) By replacing someone of a higher rank.
(d) By demonstrating and possessing qualifications for new rank.
4. How did non-English colonial Americans feel about the monarchy?
(a) They had great respect for it.
(b) They wished it were abolished.
(c) They had no attachment to it.
(d) They hoped it will continue.
5. How could a colonial adolescent master a particular skill or learn a discipline?
(a) Be privately tutored.
(b) Be indentured or go to school.
(c) Learn from a sibling.
(d) Learn from parents.
6. In colonial America, what outweighed the concern for family lineage?
(a) Individual desires of the head of the household.
(b) Individual desires of the mother.
(c) Individual desires of the father.
(d) Individual desires of the children.
7. How did the American colonies react to the intrusion of royal authority in 1763?
(a) Asked for it.
(b) Welcomed it.
(c) Didn't accept it.
(d) Ignored it.
8. How did colonial Americans look on black slavery?
(a) As an abomination.
(b) As an institution which needs legislation.
(c) As a necessary evil.
(d) As just another form of dependency.
9. Who identified the source of the revolution as the dissolution of family authority?
(a) Landon Carter.
(b) Thomas Jefferson.
(c) John Adams.
(d) John Locke.
10. What would eventually secure the people's right to participate in government?
(a) Legal documents.
(b) Religious freedom.
(c) The right to own property.
(d) The right to vote.
11. In colonial America, how did parents view their power as parents?
(a) Head of a democracy.
(b) Equals within the family.
(c) Dictatorship.
(d) Limited monarchy.
12. What characteristic of their heritage did colonial Americans in New England cling to?
(a) Conscientious objection.
(b) Charity.
(c) Militance.
(d) Defiance.
13. Who bought the small planters tobacco crops rather than taking them on consignment?
(a) Irish merchant houses.
(b) Scottish merchant houses.
(c) British merchant houses.
(d) Welsh merchant houses.
14. Who spoke for and was responsible for servants, slaves, and tenants?
(a) No one was responsible for them.
(b) They were responsible for themselves.
(c) The colonial government.
(d) The head of the household.
15. In the American colonies, what was the euphemistic name for every kind of personal connection, even if inherently unequal?
(a) Dependency.
(b) Paternalism.
(c) Friendship.
(d) Patronage.
Short Answer Questions
1. What was another name for colonial gentlemen?
2. What was the highest class of British society called?
3. In colonial America, what was absent between centralized and local authorities?
4. Who vigorously denounced the Stamp Act riots in 1765?
5. How did the grandest colonial American estates compare to traditional British estates?
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