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

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) 1776.
(b) 1777.
(c) 1778.
(d) 1775.

2. How many of the Americans' artillery pieces are lost in George Washington's Delaware River crossing?
(a) Virtually all.
(b) None.
(c) Nearly a third.
(d) Almost half.

3. How extensively do the Americans display their lack of training and discipline?
(a) In a moderate number of ways.
(b) In few ways.
(c) In many ways.
(d) In virtually all ways.

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

5. Initially, General Washington and his remaining troops flee Long Island to what location?
(a) Staten Island.
(b) Queens.
(c) Manhattan.
(d) The Bronx.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the American rebels' attitude following their crossing the Delaware River and heading on toward Trenton?

3. Where does the Americans' intelligence methodology work better than it had in New York?

4. When do the American troops prepare to cross the Delaware River and invade Trenton?

5. The victory of the Americans in their surprise attack on the Hessians that Mr. Fischer relates in "The Surprise" does what to the British view?

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