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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13, The Great Contradiction.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What interaction did Jonathan Edwards and Samuel Hopkins have on the market?
(a) Their religion restrained capitalist excess.
(b) Their religion preached charity.
(c) Their religion preached tight social cohesion before individual profit.
(d) Their religion preached personal wealth.

2. How did the Republicans plan to stay in power, according to Sellers?
(a) By uniting farmers and planters.
(b) By pitting the farmers and planters against each other.
(c) By promising to raise tariffs.
(d) By setting the people against the elite bankers.

3. How did internal trade change between 1820 and 1850?
(a) Remained the same.
(b) Tripled.
(c) Doubled.
(d) Declined by half.

4. Who does Sellers blame for the sense that things needed to be reformed?
(a) Commercial interests.
(b) Abolitionists.
(c) Manufacturers.
(d) Socialist agitators.

5. What led to the expansion of trade routes, according to Sellers?
(a) Fewer pirates.
(b) Faster production times.
(c) Improved ships.
(d) Larger markets.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Robert Owen advocate?

2. Where did democratic sentiment exist in the south, in Sellers's account?

3. What group did northern capitalists exploit, in Sellers's account?

4. What does Sellers say is the appropriate outlet for the sexual forces liberated in masturbation?

5. Whom did James Monroe replace in the White House?

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