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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is one way republicans are different from monarchists?
(a) More subject to corruption.
(b) Less subject to corruption.
(c) More subject to revolution.
(d) Less subject to revolution.

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

3. What did classical republican ideals lay the foundation for?
(a) A science education.
(b) A legal education.
(c) A liberal arts education.
(d) A religious education.

4. How did non-English colonial Americans feel about the monarchy?
(a) They had no attachment to it.
(b) They wished it were abolished.
(c) They hoped it will continue.
(d) They had great respect for it.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened in colonial America when Connecticut tried to annex Pennsylvania?

2. What did the original American colonists pride themselves as being?

3. What was critical to the success of colonial American office holders?

4. What were the religious upheavals in the colonies eventually called?

5. Who did the American colonists blame when the wrong people held office?

Short Essay Questions

1. How was mid-18th century colonial America a traditional society?

2. How did Bernard Mandeville and David Hume feel about the common people buying luxuries?

3. What were the distinctions between colonial American aristocracy and British aristocracy?

4. How did religion in colonial America support the authority and order of the monarchy?

5. How did colonial inland trade change after 1745?

6. What would a colonist do if someone spoke publicly against him?

7. Before the revolution, what did the aristocracy think of the common people?

8. What characterized colonial American tenantry?

9. What happened in literature following Britain's Glorious Revolution of 1688?

10. How did wealthy commoners in the colonies try to gain status as gentlemen?

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