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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapter 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who strove to undermine the gentry's distinctiveness and privileges by emphasizing their similarity to common people?
(a) Abraham Bishop.
(b) William Drayton.
(c) George Warner.
(d) Matthew Lyon.

2. In the 1790s, who proclaimed that every man and woman in every society ought to work?
(a) Edward Everett.
(b) John Adams.
(c) Parson Weems.
(d) Benjamin Rush.

3. Who became the richest man in Gloucester, R.I., just a few years before the revolution?
(a) Moses Cooper.
(b) David Ramsey.
(c) Thomas Hutchinson.
(d) Josiah Quincy.

4. Who said that after the revolution people were changed form subjects to citizens?
(a) David Ramsey.
(b) John Adams.
(c) William Henry Drayton.
(d) Moses Cooper.

5. In the late 1760s, who dismissed people's right to participate in government if they didn't have a liberal arts education?
(a) William Drayton.
(b) George Warner.
(c) Abraham Bishop.
(d) Matthew Lyon.

Short Answer Questions

1. From which business did Ben Franklin eventually retire?

2. When was the Virgina constitution written?

3. Who drew up the Virginia Declaration of Rights?

4. In the 1790s, who labeled gentry as men of idleness, extravagance, and dissipation?

5. How many loyalists left the colonies during the revolution?

(see the answer key)

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