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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 bought the small planters tobacco crops rather than taking them on consignment?
(a) Scottish merchant houses.
(b) British merchant houses.
(c) Irish merchant houses.
(d) Welsh merchant houses.

2. Who vigorously denounced the Stamp Act riots in 1765?
(a) Daniel Moore.
(b) James Otis.
(c) Thomas Hutchison.
(d) Henry Laurens.

3. How did Colonel Landon Carter express his confusion about child rearing in colonial society?
(a) In a diary.
(b) In a book.
(c) In a series of lectures.
(d) In a series of newspaper articles.

4. What spending trend in colonial America did social conservatives condemn?
(a) Emulation spending.
(b) Recreational spending.
(c) Foolish spending.
(d) Speculative spending.

5. What supported the colonial southern plantations that made networks of influence unnecessary?
(a) Outside investors.
(b) Slavery.
(c) Family networks.
(d) Farming.

Short Answer Questions

1. In colonial America, what was commonly manufactured in enormous quantities by the farming population?

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

3. Historically, what do good Englishmen do?

4. What was the most radical change brought about by the Revolution?

5. In colonial America, what was done with a political effigy?

Short Essay Questions

1. In colonial America, what was an entailed estate?

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

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

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

5. How was family defined in colonial America?

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

7. What characterized colonial American tenantry?

8. What did John Locke write about child rearing?

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

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

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