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

2. What is one way republicans are different from monarchists?
(a) More subject to revolution.
(b) Less subject to corruption.
(c) More subject to corruption.
(d) Less subject to revolution.

3. In colonial America, what outweighed the concern for family lineage?
(a) Individual desires of the head of the household.
(b) Individual desires of the father.
(c) Individual desires of the mother.
(d) Individual desires of the children.

4. During the war against France, what did farmers buy after they sold their surplus to the British troops?
(a) Necessities.
(b) Luxury goods.
(c) More land.
(d) Needed equipment.

5. After retiring, what does Ben Franklin do that later embarrasses him?
(a) Commission a portrait.
(b) Commission a special gun.
(c) Commission a house.
(d) Commission a uniform.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the primary nationality of the American colonists?

2. In the 18th century, what did the golden age of Roman literature speak about?

3. Within the colonial family unit, what right did adult children demand?

4. How did Baltimore, Norfolk, and Alexandria benefit from increased colonial marketing?

5. In colonial America, why did officer holders receive honors and titles?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did gentry families try to emulate English nobility?

2. What was the responsibility of the government under a monarchy?

3. Why was the family household in colonial America the place where most work was done?

4. Describe the different categories of merchants in colonial America.

5. How was family defined in colonial America?

6. How did colonial imports of British goods change the twenty-five years before the Revolution?

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

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

9. What was the golden age of Roman literature?

10. How did wealthy commoners in the colonies try to gain status as gentlemen?

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