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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Social Man, Infighting Foreshadowed, The Great Schism Opens and Europeans and Indians.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which city's merchants established a paper money system that would not depreciate?
(a) Philadelphia.
(b) Trenton.
(c) Princeton.
(d) Mount Vernon.

2. Who was in charge of the British forces in Germantown?
(a) Thomas Conway.
(b) General Howe.
(c) Lord Cornwallis.
(d) General Greene.

3. Why was Washington chosen for his first military experience?
(a) His negotiating skills.
(b) His leadership skills.
(c) His local prominence.
(d) His surveying and wilderness skills.

4. Who sat in the reserved seat to the right of Martha Washington at her tea parties?
(a) The mayor of Philadelphia's wife.
(b) George Washington.
(c) Abigail Adams.
(d) The wife of John Jay.

5. What did the convention scrap after five days of meeting?
(a) The Articles of Confederation.
(b) The Constitution.
(c) The Continental Army.
(d) The new peace treaty.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Washington have surgery in 1789?

2. What city did George Washington and Count de Rochambeau meet in on September 20, 1780?

3. After the death of his half-brother, which position did Washington take?

4. Which person surprised the British at Stony Point?

5. Who proposed the idea of "discrimination" with regard to finances?

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