a. John Adams was on the committee to draft the Declaration of Independence.
	b. John Adams was elected President of the United States in 1796.
	c. Abigail Adams was married to John Adams when she wrote the letter prior to the drafting of the Declaration of Independence.
	d. The relationship of John Adams and Cinqué in the film Amistad was closer in the Spielberg version than in real life.

	a. sympathizer with the British crown.
	b. bully.
	c. champion of human rights for all.
	d. national hero.

	a. stir up.
	b. avoid.
	c. ignore.
	d. improve.

Another way of saying this is

	a. Why not make it punishable to mistreat women?
	b. Why not give men more power over women?
	c. Why not create laws that will make it legal for women to divorce more freely?
	d. Why not accept that women should have power over men?

	a. illegal.
	b. a gift and responsibility from God.
	c. an unnecessary burden.
	d. unimportant and not worthy of consideration.

	a. London sent troops to control colonists in Massachusetts in January of 1775.
	b. the Boston Massacre took place on March 5, 1770.
	c. Delegates to the Second Continental Congress, stirred by Thomas Paine's pamphlet Common Sense in January 1776, as well as the failure of King George III to acknowledge their pleas for a peaceful solution, were stirred with unrest and were considering serious action.
	d. In June 1776 Richard Henry Lee of Virginia presented a resolution, "That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved."

         In the late eighteenth century there was a trend in the Western world, barely perceptible at the time, toward increasing the legal rights of women. This movement was strengthened in America by the events leading up to the break with Great Britain and still more by the Declaration of Independence. When Americans began to think and talk about the rights of the individual and the evils of arbitrary rule, subtle effects on relations between the sexes followed. For example, it became somewhat easier for women to obtain divorces. In colonial times divorces were relatively rare, but easier for men to obtain than for women. After the Revolution the difference did not disappear, but it became considerably smaller. In Massachusetts, before the 1770s no woman is known to have obtained a divorce on the ground of her husband's adultery. Thereafter, successful suits by wives against errant husbands were not unusual. In 1791 a South Carolina judge went so far as to say that the law protecting "the absolute dominion" of husbands was "the offspring of a rude and barbarous age." The "progress of civilization," he continued, "has tended to allow even to wives something like personal identity."

         As the tone of this "liberal" opinion indicates, the change in male attitudes that took place in America because of the Revolution was small. Courts in New York and Massachusetts refused to take action against Tory women whose husbands were Tories on the ground that it was the duty of women to obey their husbands, and when John Adams's wife Abigail warned him in 1776 that if he and his fellow rebels did not "remember the ladies" when reforming society, the women would "foment a Rebellion" of their own, he treated her remarks as a joke. Adams believed that voting (and as he wrote on another occasion, writing history) was "not the Province of the Ladies."

Arbitrary means

	a. fair.
	b. disinterested.
	c. based on logic.
	d. based on impulse.

	a. the power southern women had over their husbands.
	b. the power English women had over their husbands.
	c. the power wealthy women had over their husbands.
	d. the power men had over their wives.

	a. 19th century colonial America.
	b. 19th century England.
	c. colonial America prior to 1791.
	d. those who held allegiance to the British crown.

To fully understand this passage, a reader would need to know all of the following except  

	a. New York and Massachusetts are located in New England.
	b. Tory women were loyal to the British crown.
	c. Tory men were loyal to the British crown.
	d. the American Revolution was fought by the colonists to gain independence from England.

	a. the late 1800s.
	b. the late 1700s.
	c. the century prior to the Declaration of Independence.
	d. the decade following the arrival of the first English settlers to Jamestown, Virginia.

	a. Marriages prior to the American revolution rarely ended in divorce.
	b. Prior to the American Revolution, husbands could divorce their wives easily.
	c. Prior to the American Revolution, women were rarely granted divorces from their husbands.
	d. To be granted a divorce, a woman had to prove that her husband had been unfaithful.

	a. misled by his colleagues.
	b. a revolutionary thinker for his time.
	c. someone who did not like women.
	d. a single man.

Province refers to

	a. a small county in southern France.
	b. business
	c. legal office.
	d. good manners.