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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Occupation.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the title of Thomas Paine's second pamphlet?
(a) The Colonial Revolution.
(b) The American Revolution.
(c) The American Crisis.
(d) The Colonial Crisis.

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

4. The summer illness that plagues those fighting the Americans in the latter half of the 1770s strikes which troops?
(a) Hessian only.
(b) All opposed to the Americans.
(c) Canadian.
(d) British only.

5. What do the people view Washington as being?
(a) A poor military leader.
(b) Best suited to plantation management.
(c) A true leader.
(d) Strictly a politician.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the British militia instruct beyond a general attitude?

2. From where do most of the high-ranking Hessian officers come?

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

4. Why do the British opt not to hire the Hessian army to serve in the Colonies long before the American Revolution?

5. The Hessian system of discipline differs from that of the British in that the Hessians make greater use of what?

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