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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. Who must yield power for a government to be good?
(a) Wealthy men.
(b) Men interested in politics.
(c) Men who care about society.
(d) Disinterested men.

2. How were domestic servants treated in colonial America as compared to Europe at that same time?
(a) With more brutality and humiliation.
(b) With fewer accommodations and conveniences.
(c) With less free time and days off.
(d) With more kindness and compassion.

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

4. What relationship did the British farmer have with the land he worked?
(a) He borrowed it.
(b) He lent it.
(c) He was a tenant.
(d) He was the owner.

5. How did fathers among colonial gentry control their adult children?
(a) They used corporal punishment.
(b) They took away their possessions.
(c) They threathened disinheritance.
(d) They took them to court.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened in colonial America when more and more people demanded land?

2. How was intermarriage and inbreeding looked upon by colonial gentry?

3. How were superiors, magistrates, and masters to be honored?

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

5. From which business did Ben Franklin eventually retire?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did religion in colonial America support the authority and order of the monarchy?

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

3. How was mid-18th century colonial America a traditional society?

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

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

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

7. In colonial America, what was the purpose of the pillory or whipping post?

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

9. How was individual governmental service defined under the monarchy?

10. What would a colonist do if someone spoke publicly against him?

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