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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How could a colonial adolescent master a particular skill or learn a discipline?

2. Historically, what do good Englishmen do?

3. What percent of the American colonial population was poor?

4. What was another name for colonial gentlemen?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How was patriarchy within the colonial family unit challenged during the 18th century?

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

3. How was individual governmental service defined under the monarchy?

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

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

6. What was the difference between morality under a republic rather than a monarchy?

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

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

9. How did gentry families try to emulate English nobility?

10. Give examples of the patronage Ben Franklin practiced when he became Deputy Postmaster General of North America.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Contrast American competition for public office with that kind of competition in England. What about the new American government led to the differences? How did political parties exacerbate the competition? How did politicians' ultimate view of office differ from the British view of office?

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast the life and leisure of the aristocracy to the life and labor of the common people in colonial America before the revolution.

Essay Topic 3

The monarchy's social cement of family, force, patronage, and dependence had made it powerful. After the revolution, what new social adhesive in colonial America replaced the monarchy? How was this replacement accomplished?

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