Question 1
Which statement regarding slavery in English North America in 1700 is FALSE?
A. The demand for slaves led to a steady rise in the prices paid for them.
B. Blacks outnumbered whites in some areas.
C. Blacks were heavily concentrated in a few southern colonies.
D. There were twice as many black men as black women.
E. There were about 25,000 slaves in the colonies.
Question 2
In colonial New England Puritan communities, the family was
A. neither highly valued nor expected to be under the authority of women.
B. both highly valued and expected to be under the authority of women.
C. highly valued.
D. marked by relatively loose parental supervision.
E. expected to be under the authority of women.
Question 3
In colonial New England,
A. strict parental control made premarital sexual relations almost nonexistent.
B. dowries were a common feature of marriage.
C. gender equality was reinforced by the prevailing culture.
D. choosing a spouse independent of a parent's wishes was common.
E. widows tended not to remarry.
Question 4
) Compared to women in colonial Chesapeake, New England women
A. lost their husbands earlier in life.
B. were more likely to become widows.
C. were more likely to have their family remain intact.
D. had fewer children.
E. had much less legal authority in their marriages.
Question 5
In colonial New England Puritan communities, women
A. were expected to devote themselves to serving the needs of their husbands and households.
B. were not highly valued.
C. were more likely to become pregnant before marriage than in the South.
D. were considered to be socially equal to males.
E. could not be official members of the church.
Question 6
The seventeenth-century medical practice of deliberately bleeding a person was based on
A. Calvinist religious doctrine.
B. scientific experimentation and observation.
C. evidence that it helped in the recovery from illness.
D. practices acquired from Indians.
E. the belief that a person needed to maintain a balance of different bodily fluids.
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