Question 1
Approximately what percent of all high school-age students attended school at the beginning of the 20th century?
◦ Less than 10%
◦ About 25%
◦ About 50%
◦ About 75%
Question 2
Consider the schools in the Middle colonies-New York, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Delaware, and Pennsylvania-during the colonial period. Which of the following statements is most valid?
◦ The colonies were religiously diverse, so each colony created parochial schools for the children of the colony.
◦ Because many people worked in towns that had industry and commerce, families collaborated to hire tutors for several families' children.
◦ Because many people came from working class-instead of aristocratic-backgrounds, education was more egalitarian than in the Northern and Southern colonies.
◦ Education focused primarily on religious training, which was grounded in the belief that humanity was evil, by its nature, having fallen in the sin of Adam and Eve.