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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapter 18.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who was governor of Massachusetts during the Boston Tea Party?
(a) Thomas Hutton.
(b) Thomas Hutchinson.
(c) Thomas Huxtible.
(d) Thomas Hutchins.

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

4. Who believed that each individual was responsible for his or her eternal salvation or damnation?
(a) Lorenzo Dow.
(b) Lyman Beecher.
(c) Barton Stone.
(d) Elias Smith.

5. What relationship did the British farmer have with the land he worked?
(a) He lent it.
(b) He was the owner.
(c) He was a tenant.
(d) He borrowed it.

Short Answer Questions

1. How was intermarriage and inbreeding looked upon by colonial gentry?

2. When meeting someone new in colonial America, what was required for confidence in dealing with that person?

3. What was the highest class of British society called?

4. Within the colonial family unit, what right did adult children demand?

5. The "Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation" was a key document for which man?

(see the answer key)

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