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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapter 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How was high office in colonial America considered?
(a) As a profession and profit.
(b) As an honor and privilege.
(c) As a right and responsibility.
(d) As a sacrifice and burden.

2. How did colonial gentry demonstrate virtue?
(a) By church attendance and charitable contributions.
(b) By righteous behavior and virtuous living.
(c) By consuming enough to employ the commoners.
(d) By supporting trade schools and farms.

3. How was intermarriage and inbreeding looked upon by colonial gentry?
(a) It is encouraged.
(b) It is illegal.
(c) It is forbidden.
(d) It is commonplace.

4. How were domestic servants treated in colonial America as compared to Europe at that same time?
(a) With more kindness and compassion.
(b) With fewer accommodations and conveniences.
(c) With less free time and days off.
(d) With more brutality and humiliation.

5. What was the main consideration for a colonial man to be considered a gentleman?
(a) He must be free from material and intellectual want.
(b) He must be a member of a political party and the militia.
(c) He must be a land owner and a church member.
(d) He must be a married man with good standing in the community.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the most popular and powerful man in Massachusetts during the last quarter of the 18th century?

2. At the middle of the 18th century, what did many revolutionary leaders feel the colonies still needed?

3. What was the colonial role in the renewed Anglo-French warfare in the 1750s?

4. Who was an important patron of Ben Franklin?

5. After retiring, what does Ben Franklin do that later embarrasses him?

(see the answer key)

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