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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Ben Franklin identify as the central political problems of his time?
(a) Love of country and home.
(b) Hatred of dependence and oppression.
(c) Hatred of politicians and the military.
(d) Love of power and money.

2. 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 children.
(d) Individual desires of the father.

3. In colonial America, which pairs of words were "opposites and irreconcilable"?
(a) Freedom and religion.
(b) Tenant and dependency.
(c) Indentured and dependency.
(d) Freedom and dependency.

4. How did Colonel Landon Carter express his confusion about child rearing in colonial society?
(a) In a series of newspaper articles.
(b) In a series of lectures.
(c) In a book.
(d) In a diary.

5. How did colonial gentry demonstrate virtue?
(a) By church attendance and charitable contributions.
(b) By supporting trade schools and farms.
(c) By righteous behavior and virtuous living.
(d) By consuming enough to employ the commoners.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were colonial American rulers always concerned about regarding their positions?

2. Who spoke for and was responsible for servants, slaves, and tenants?

3. When did the Seven Years War take place?

4. What were the religious upheavals in the colonies eventually called?

5. Historically, what kinds of men are guilty for all wars and tyrannies?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did John Locke write about child rearing?

2. In times of war, how were aristocratic soldiers treated differently than common soldiers?

3. Why was traditional hierarchical authority brought to question throughout the 18th century?

4. What was the relationship of farmers and merchants in colonial America?

5. How had the definition of aristocracy in colonial America changed by the 18th century?

6. In small face-to-face colonial society, give two examples of how official and personal affairs combined.

7. How did Bernard Mandeville and David Hume feel about the common people buying luxuries?

8. What was the golden age of Roman literature?

9. What was the thinking of many colonial American Protestants towards child rearing?

10. Why did colonists so eagerly desire titles or distinctions?

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