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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Good Ground.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is one important way the Americans display their lack of training and discipline?
(a) Their maintaining their lodging in disarray and constantly soiled.
(b) Their unwillingness to give their lives to the effort.
(c) Their lack of dedication to the cause in difficult times.
(d) Their virtual inability to utilize firearms.

2. The original plans are to cross the Delaware River under what circumstances?
(a) Under cover of darkness and attack a little after dawn.
(b) At dawn and attack with adequate daylight.
(c) Under cover of darkness and attack a little before dawn.
(d) Under cover of darkness and attack at dawn.

3. What term does Benjamin Rush use to describe the mood of the American troops?
(a) Composure.
(b) Exhausted.
(c) Excited.
(d) Frustrated.

4. Following their victory in the surprise attack against the Hessians, the Americans share a spirit that the author describes as what?
(a) Reflecting concern as to how they will continue.
(b) Different from the last fight.
(c) Demonstrating uncertainty as to whether they can survive against the British.
(d) Identical to the last fight.

5. The Americans' surprise victory over the Hessians causes British commanders to also lose control of what?
(a) The New York countryside.
(b) The Delaware countryside.
(c) The New Jersey countryside.
(d) The Pennsylvania countryside.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Good Ground," the author notes the Americans learn the British leaders are planning to strike at either Trenton or what location?

2. Between the troops, weapons, and supplies they need to get across the Delaware River prior to the attack, how far behind does traveling in the storm put the Americans?

3. The author believes that, as the Americans mature as a cohesive unit, they will eventually see the benefits of what?

4. George Washington's surprise victory over the Hessians causes British commanders to lose their initiative over the course of how long?

5. An illness tears through the troops that fight against the Americans during the summer of what year in the latter half of the 1770s?

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