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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. An illness tears through the troops that fight against the Americans during the summer of what year in the latter half of the 1770s?
(a) 1778.
(b) 1777.
(c) 1776.
(d) 1775.

2. Who expands the Hessian army?
(a) Andreas von Wiederholdt II.
(b) Friedrich Wilhelm II.
(c) Johann Gottlieb II.
(d) Wilhelm Karl Friedrich II.

3. According to the author, during the American's retreat following their defeat in New York, how do the rebels behave?
(a) Like a beaten army in flight.
(b) In full resistance to the British and Hessians.
(c) Unlike a beaten army in skirmishes along the road.
(d) In stubborn resistance when they are nearly in equal opposition.

4. Admiral Lord Richard and General William Howe are stationed in the Colonies by whose orders?
(a) The British House of Commons.
(b) The British Secretary of War.
(c) The British King.
(d) The British Parliment.

5. The first chapter, "The Rebels," foreshadows what events?
(a) The struggles in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia and the Carolinas.
(b) The death of Washington prior to the end of the war.
(c) The hardest struggles yet to come in the Revolution.
(d) The death of Benjamin Franklin prior to the end of the war..

Short Answer Questions

1. The Hessian troops are exhausted and want to move where to fully rest themselves?

2. The summer illness that plagues those fighting the Americans in the latter half of the 1770s strikes which troops?

3. At what location are the Americans just a few miles from where the British settle on the New Jersey side of the Hudson River?

4. In addition to size, intelligence, and energy, what additional criterion is considered when selecting the British light infantry?

5. How frequently does the leader of the Hessian army conduct drills?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the Hessians and British military forces differ in their approach to discipline?

2. How does George Washington fare in Manhattan in 1776?

3. What is General William Howe's view regarding the British chances of defeating the American rebels following the Battle of Bunker Hill?

4. What is an interesting fact the author notes regarding the American attitude during their retreat through New Jersey?

5. What events at the end of 1776 are foreshadowed early within the chapter entitled "The Retreat?"

6. How does General William Howe act following the Battle of Bunker Hill?

7. Why is it in this chapter, "The Crisis," that the author mentions that some people refer to George Washington as a dictator?

8. What does the author note regarding the roles order and discipline have in the victories and the defeats?

9. What does Thomas Paine seek to change with his second pamphlet, entitled "The American Crisis," in November 1776?

10. As the winter of 1776 approaches, what view do the British develop regarding the American Revolution?

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