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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5, The President: Chapters 46-63.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. A short time after the Battle of Monmouth, the _________________ reinforcements arrived to assist Washington.
(a) German.
(b) Hessian.
(c) French.
(d) Italian.

2. Which of the following did Washington's men NOT lack at Valley Forge?
(a) Medicine.
(b) Food.
(c) Clothing.
(d) Weapons.

3. Washington and his men spent the Winter of 1779 in which New Jersey town?
(a) Trenton.
(b) Morristown.
(c) Bayonne.
(d) Princeton.

4. The people of which states continued to support the British during the Revolutionary War?
(a) New York and New Jersey.
(b) New York and Virginia.
(c) South Carolina and Virginia.
(d) New Jersey and North Carolina.

5. Why did Washington like spending so much time with his eldest half-brother at his farm?
(a) He could talk about his father with him.
(b) He wanted to learn a trade.
(c) He managed the farm.
(d) He wanted to escape his critical mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What placed a huge burden on Washington's precarious finances?

2. George and Martha Washington married in January of what year?

3. Whom did Washington marry?

4. Washington was quite social and was often the center of attention with ________________.

5. How old was George Washington when his father died?

(see the answer key)

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