Quiz     

Directions: Read the following and choose the correct ending.  

1. If you were a farm girl, what could be one of your jobs?

plowing     building      studying    cooking

2. Synonym for "barter"

trade   steal   borrow   manufacture

3. Who might repair your broken barrel? 

mason  cooper  wheelwright    silversmith

4. The name of someone who has a specific skill with their hands: 

occupation     merchant      artisan    slave

5. The following person would probably be poor:

slave    artisan  merchant    innkeeper

6. Who might you pay to make you a candlestick?

wheelwright     silversmith  cooper    tanner

7. When people started to have more free time, they probably: 

went to school     slept less      moved more                    got rid of their slaves

8. The following was a reason that people came to the colony: 

more weather     freedom of religion      less land    better medicine

 

 

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