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Multiple Choice City Quiz – Boston
Can you answer these multiple choice questions about the city of Boston and its environs?
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Last updated: March 4, 2025
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1. Which of these U. S. Presidents was born in the Boston area?
Franklin D. Roosevelt
John F. Kennedy
James Madison
Ronald Reagan
2. What Boston suburb is home to Harvard and MIT?
Braintree
Cambridge
Lexington
Somerville
3. What movie, written by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, was set in Boston?
Dead Poets Society
Good Will Hunting
The Departed
The Social Network
4. Located in central Boston, it's the oldest park in the United States. What is it?
Boston Common
Boston Garden
Hyde Park
Liberty Green
5. Which of these phrases is often used to demonstrate a typical Boston accent?
Forget about it
I'm totally stoked, bro
Park the car in Harvard Yard
You betcha!
6. What was the Boston Tea Party a protest against?
Suppression of free speech
The Catholic church
The military draft
Unfair taxation
7. What battle took place within the current city limits of Boston?
Battle of Antietam
Battle of Bunker Hill
Battle of Lexington
Battle of Saratoga
8. Boston has the world's oldest ...
Annual marathon
Insurance company
Opera house
Skyscraper
9. Which of these rock bands started in Boston?
Aerosmith
Guns N' Roses
The Clash
The White Stripes
10. What nickname is given to Boston's upper class, especially ones descended from the early English settlers?
Boston Brahmins
Mayflower Moguls
New England Nabobs
Puritan Princes
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This undercut the smugglers' price and so the taxed shipments of tea on the ships in Boston harbour were cheaper than the smugglers'. Hence, they boarded the ships and turned all the tea into the harbour and so restored and probably increased the price of the tea they had to sell.
At the time, it was not a political protest, but a criminal act, but only later was it romantically linked to the rebellion.
And for those commenting on "no taxation without representation", a pivotal reason the vote was not given to the colonies was because they were only ever seen as trading posts. Britain had no interest in colonising America, despite what the comical Patriot film with Mel Gibson might suggest. The native Americans were better under Britain than the new USA, as history has shown.
The smuggling is absolutely true but was only a criminal act because Americans were simply buying tea from the Dutch. This didn't fit in with British mercantilist policies for their trading posts. Therefore, the Tea Party fits into the Revolutionary narrative as a heroic act because it was a part of a progression of rising tensions that began after the Seven Years War wherein the British started to take more unwanted direct control over the colonies. Rebel smugglers defied Britian to make money but also tapped into that rebellious, anti-interventionist spirit that was ignited by the Navigation Acts and indignation over the fact that while Britain continued to see America as a continent of trading posts, Americans felt they should receive equal standing or independence to govern themselves politically and economically freely. Britain gave Americans neither and therefore the tea -- symbolic of the British-- had to go!
The men who boarded the ships weren't simply trying to improve their smuggling business. We know this because colonial law required that taxes on tea had to be paid in whole within 20 days of landing. By throwing the tea overboard, the taxes would not have to be collected.
Final thought. There were massive boycotts in America against British tea. Even if it did make it to American soil, the majority of Americans were drinking homemade teas or Dutch tea. Therefore, the impact of this cheap surplus tea from Britian would have been minimal as most understood the ruse of selling surplus tea as a trick to persuade Americans to pay taxes thereby proving that the British had the right to tax.