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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 consuming enough to employ the commoners.
(b) By church attendance and charitable contributions.
(c) By righteous behavior and virtuous living.
(d) By supporting trade schools and farms.

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

3. Who was an important patron of Ben Franklin?
(a) William Gouch.
(b) Thomas Penn.
(c) William Keith.
(d) David Hume.

4. Who was the head of a colonial household?
(a) The patriarch.
(b) The matriarch.
(c) The oldest grandfather.
(d) The parents.

5. In colonial America, why did officer holders receive honors and titles?
(a) To give honor where honor is due.
(b) To inspire respect and obedience from the common people.
(c) To impress and show up their peers.
(d) To solicit money for polictical causes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What relationship did the British farmer have with the land he worked?

2. Who rejected "ancient prejudices" that supported hereditary monarchy?

3. What did colonial religious sects have in common?

4. What relationship did the American farmer have with the land he worked?

5. Who vigorously denounced the Stamp Act riots in 1765?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did colonial inland trade change after 1745?

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

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

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

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

7. What was characteristic of economic exchanges in colonial America?

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

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

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

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