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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did the grandest colonial American estates compare to traditional British estates?
(a) They were worth more.
(b) There were much larger.
(c) They were much smaller.
(d) They were about the same size.

2. Who was the head of a colonial household?
(a) The parents.
(b) The patriarch.
(c) The oldest grandfather.
(d) The matriarch.

3. What percentage of 18th century colonial Americans were employed in farming?
(a) 95%.
(b) 90%.
(c) 85%.
(d) 80%.

4. What was the colonial role in the renewed Anglo-French warfare in the 1750s?
(a) They supplied no manpower or resources to any country.
(b) They supplied manpower and resources to France.
(c) They supplied manpower and resources to England.
(d) They had no manpower or resources to supply to any country.

5. How did fathers among colonial gentry control their adult children?
(a) They took them to court.
(b) They used corporal punishment.
(c) They threathened disinheritance.
(d) They took away their possessions.

6. What supported the colonial southern plantations that made networks of influence unnecessary?
(a) Slavery.
(b) Outside investors.
(c) Family networks.
(d) Farming.

7. What were those who opposed the Anglican church called?
(a) Heretics.
(b) Dissenters.
(c) Proselytes.
(d) Converts.

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

9. In the American colonies, what was the euphemistic name for every kind of personal connection, even if inherently unequal?
(a) Dependency.
(b) Patronage.
(c) Paternalism.
(d) Friendship.

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

11. Who was an important patron of Ben Franklin?
(a) David Hume.
(b) Thomas Penn.
(c) William Gouch.
(d) William Keith.

12. What was the status of an indentured servant in colonial America?
(a) He was a free agent.
(b) He was the lowest class of society.
(c) He was working his way up the ladder.
(d) He was property.

13. What percentage of southern colonists were aristocrats?
(a) 5-6%.
(b) 7-8%.
(c) 4-5%.
(d) 2-3%.

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

15. What was the primary nationality of the American colonists?
(a) English.
(b) Irish.
(c) Europeans.
(d) Scottish.

Short Answer Questions

1. How was high office in colonial America considered?

2. Who vigorously denounced the Stamp Act riots in 1765?

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

4. How did the American colonies react to the intrusion of royal authority in 1763?

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

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