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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the mariner and former slave whose quote opens Chapter 37?
(a) Henry Laurens.
(b) Henry Knox.
(c) Jehu Grant.
(d) Olaudah Equiano.

2. How many sons does the cook tell Curzon she has raised in Chapter 38?
(a) Six.
(b) Two.
(c) Three.
(d) Eight.

3. To what position does Missus Greene hope her husband will be appointed to after the war?
(a) French Ambassador.
(b) German Ambassador.
(c) Japanese Ambassador.
(d) English Ambassador.

4. Who is relocated to the parlor as his sleeping quarters and with his duties as forage master in Chapter 55?
(a) Joseph Valentine.
(b) General Biddle.
(c) Private Joseph Plumb Martin.
(d) Baron de Gaudy.

5. What date opens Chapter 40?
(a) February 18, 1778.
(b) June 1, 1778.
(c) February 14, 1778.
(d) February 6, 1778.

6. Whose letter to his brother Pierre describes the celebration of the French alliance in the opening of Chapter 56?
(a) Joseph Valentine.
(b) John Bannister.
(c) Colonel Philip van Cortlandt.
(d) Private Joseph Plumb Martin.

7. On what date does Chapter 32 open?
(a) February 11, 1778.
(b) February 13, 1778.
(c) June 1, 1778.
(d) February 7, 1778.

8. On what date does Chapter 35 begin?
(a) June 1, 1778.
(b) February 7, 1778.
(c) February 14, 1778.
(d) December 22, 1777.

9. Who is the Oneida woman that instructs how to make corn soup in Chapter 58?
(a) Polly Cooper.
(b) Mary Prince.
(c) Olaudah Equiano.
(d) Hannah Glasse.

10. Whose boots does Curzon intend to wear when meeting Bellingham in Chapter 31?
(a) Eben's.
(b) Silvenus's.
(c) Faulkner's.
(d) Burns's.

11. Where is a battalion of black and Indian soldiers being assembled in Chapter 43?
(a) Rhode Island.
(b) New Hampshire.
(c) Vermont.
(d) New York.

12. Who is John Laurens's valet?
(a) Jackson.
(b) Gideon.
(c) Shrewsberry.
(d) Walters.

13. What recipe is described in the quotation that opens Chapter 38?
(a) Mincemeat pie.
(b) Candied apples.
(c) Calf's foot pie.
(d) Fried potatoes.

14. Whose journal entry is cited in the opening of Chapter 54?
(a) Sergeant John Smith's.
(b) Private Ezra Tilden's.
(c) Private George Ewing's.
(d) Colonel Isaac Sherman's.

15. Whose notes on the instructions of Baron von Steuben are cited in the opening of Chapter 45?
(a) Colonel Isaac Sherman's.
(b) British Ensign Thomas Anbury's.
(c) Private Ezra Tilden's.
(d) Private Joseph Plumb Martin's.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Isabel do in the ending of Chapter 53?

2. On what date does Chapter 42 open?

3. Who is the leader of France that has formally recognized the United States as an independent nation in Chapter 54?

4. Who is referred to as General Washington's manservant in Chapter 39?

5. Chapter 49 spans from April 6, 1778 to what date?

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