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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In colonial America, what was done with a political effigy?
(a) It was pubically beaten.
(b) It was buried.
(c) It was hanged.
(d) It was burned.

3. In colonial America, a person who didn't have to work for a living still held what responsibility?
(a) He owed money to society.
(b) He owed charity to the poor.
(c) He owed jobs to the unemployed.
(d) He owed service to society.

4. What was it called when Ben Franklin appointed his friends and family to official positions after he became Deputy Postmaster General of North America?
(a) Prerogativism.
(b) Consequentialism.
(c) Patronage.
(d) Paucity.

5. What percent of the American colonial population was poor?
(a) 10%.
(b) 15%.
(c) 20%.
(d) 5%.

Short Answer Questions

1. How are people regarded in a hierarchical society?

2. How did fathers among colonial gentry control their adult children?

3. In colonial America, why did officer holders receive honors and titles?

4. What relationship did the American farmer have with the land he worked?

5. How did the grandest colonial American estates compare to traditional British estates?

(see the answer key)

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