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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What placed a huge burden on Washington's precarious finances?
(a) Entertaining visitors who wanted to meet him.
(b) Paying his soldiers.
(c) Buying more property.
(d) Traveling the world.

2. How many attempts did it take Washington to imprison Benedict Arnold?
(a) Two.
(b) Three.
(c) Seven.
(d) He never did.

3. Alexander Hamilton delivered the Report on Public Credit that included his assertion that the federal government should take on the states' debts ________________________.
(a) Incurred by the war.
(b) To build universities.
(c) For road construction.
(d) Left over from the Stamp Act.

4. What did Washington attend before leaving Philadelphia for retirement?
(a) The opening of the White House.
(b) Adams' inauguration.
(c) The State of the Union address.
(d) The launch of the U.S.S. Washington.

5. Who helped Washington write his farewell address which was run in several newspapers in 1796?
(a) Hamilton.
(b) Adams.
(c) Jefferson.
(d) Knox.

6. A group of men in Washington's army mutinied and killed their officers because ________________________.
(a) They didn't have pay, food or clothing.
(b) They were forced to stand guard for double shifts.
(c) They were forced to march during a blizzard.
(d) They were forced to march twenty miles a day.

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

8. The rebellions in the state in #127 made it clear that the _______________________ needed to be written.
(a) Stamp Act provisions.
(b) Declaration of Independence.
(c) First Amendment.
(d) Articles of the Confederation.

9. Jefferson and Madison argued that Hamilton's Federalists supported ____________________ in America.
(a) A monarch.
(b) The death penalty.
(c) Three political parties.
(d) Civil rights.

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

11. While struggling financially, Washington toured his properties in __________________ to collect rent and evict squatters.
(a) Virginia.
(b) Canada.
(c) The Ohio Valley.
(d) New England.

12. To deal with his discomfort with strangers, Washington confined social meetings to a weekly ________________ he would hold in his home each Tuesday.
(a) Cocktail party.
(b) Brunch.
(c) Card party.
(d) Levee.

13. Who did Washington appoint as his Secretary of the Treasury?
(a) Nathanael Greene.
(b) Wallace Fairfax.
(c) Henry Knox.
(d) Alexander Hamilton.

14. What was a point of contention between Washington and a foreign dignitary who remained his friend?
(a) Washington did not want any military honors.
(b) Washington would not give him an American military distinction.
(c) Washington continued to own slaves.
(d) Washington would not support the French army.

15. Which of the Founding Fathers achieved a pair of treaties with France, boosting morale at Valley Forge?
(a) Thomas Jefferson.
(b) Benjamin Franklin.
(c) John Adams.
(d) George Washington.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what city was the convention in #129 held?

2. The overwhelming problem Washington had to deal with in the Summer of 1794 was a rebellion in Virginia and Pennsylvania against ____________________.

3. Which family member of his died while Washington was ill from the tumor?

4. Who was the envoy who Washington sent to England to demand the end of their seizing American ships and imprisoning American citizens they thought were British deserters?

5. Which of the following was NOT among Washington's strongest supporters at one time, but who now wrote negative essays about him which were published?

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