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

2. How did John Locke view a child's mind?
(a) As moldable as clay.
(b) As useless and unformed.
(c) As foolish until educated.
(d) As a blank slate.

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

4. What were the religious upheavals in the colonies eventually called?
(a) Religious Revolution.
(b) Great Awakening.
(c) Church's Decision.
(d) Puritan Petitions.

5. How were superiors, magistrates, and masters to be honored?
(a) As equals.
(b) As parents.
(c) As mothers.
(d) As fathers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Philadelphia's approximate population in 1760?

2. In colonial America, what emerged after politics cease to be a contest among prominent families?

3. When Ben Franklin was a boy, what important man discussed books with him?

4. What percentage of northern colonists were aristocrats?

5. Who was an important patron of Ben Franklin?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened in literature following Britain's Glorious Revolution of 1688?

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

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

4. Why could Anglo-American colonists never be good subjects to the crown?

5. How was the term 'gentleman' redefined in the 16th century?

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

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

8. How did colonial inland trade change after 1745?

9. What characterized colonial American tenantry?

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

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