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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How were superiors, magistrates, and masters to be honored?
(a) As fathers.
(b) As parents.
(c) As mothers.
(d) As equals.

3. Who spoke for and was responsible for servants, slaves, and tenants?
(a) The colonial government.
(b) The head of the household.
(c) No one was responsible for them.
(d) They were responsible for themselves.

4. Who identified the source of the revolution as the dissolution of family authority?
(a) Landon Carter.
(b) John Locke.
(c) Thomas Jefferson.
(d) John Adams.

5. In colonial America, what was commonly manufactured in enormous quantities by the farming population?
(a) Cloth.
(b) Rope.
(c) Preserves.
(d) Farm equipment.

Short Answer Questions

1. How were domestic servants treated in colonial America as compared to Europe at that same time?

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

3. What religious belief did Thomas Jefferson and Ben Franklin hold?

4. In colonial America, which pairs of words were "opposites and irreconcilable"?

5. What was it called when Ben Franklin appointed his friends and family to official positions after he became Deputy Postmaster General of North America?

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