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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 characteristic separated patricians from plebeians?
(a) Income.
(b) Education.
(c) Physical labor.
(d) Birth status.

2. What kinds of laws were proposed in colonial America to curb spending?
(a) Speculative laws.
(b) Pecuniary laws.
(c) Monetary laws.
(d) Sumptuary laws.

3. Who wrote about the irreligious "Wild Woods" of the Carolina back country?
(a) Mason Woodward.
(b) Charles Masonward.
(c) Woodward Charleston.
(d) Charles Woodmason.

4. How did the American colonies react to the intrusion of royal authority in 1763?
(a) Welcomed it.
(b) Asked for it.
(c) Ignored it.
(d) Didn't accept it.

5. In colonial America, what was absent between centralized and local authorities?
(a) Cooperation.
(b) Agreement.
(c) Harmony.
(d) Stability.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What percentage of southern colonists were aristocrats?

3. What circumstance was unknown in small scale colonial American society?

4. What was another name for colonial commoners?

5. What supported the colonial southern plantations that made networks of influence unnecessary?

Short Essay Questions

1. What characterized colonial American tenantry?

2. What did John Locke write about child rearing?

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

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

5. How did colonial imports of British goods change the twenty-five years before the Revolution?

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

7. How did colonial inland trade change after 1745?

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

9. Before the revolution, what did the aristocracy think of the common people?

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

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