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

2. What was critical to the success of colonial American office holders?
(a) Stable family life.
(b) Freedom from debt.
(c) Personal accountability.
(d) Social respectability.

3. What was the highest class of British society called?
(a) Aristocracy.
(b) Egalitarianism.
(c) Hierarchy.
(d) Monarchy.

4. In colonial America, what were the aristocracy allowed to engage in that they weren't allowed in Britain?
(a) Use of oaths.
(b) Gambling.
(c) Farming.
(d) Retail trade.

5. How was high office in colonial America considered?
(a) As a sacrifice and burden.
(b) As a right and responsibility.
(c) As an honor and privilege.
(d) As a profession and profit.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the original American colonists pride themselves as being?

2. When did the Seven Years War take place?

3. What percentage of 18th century colonial Americans were employed in farming?

4. Who must yield power for a government to be good?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What characterized colonial American tenantry?

4. What did John Locke write about child rearing?

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

6. What did the British conquest of the French in 1759 and the subsequent peace in 1763 do to colonial expansion?

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

8. How was republicanism defined at the time of the American Revolution?

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

10. What was the golden age of Roman literature?

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