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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What habits does General William Howe adopt after he recognizes the rebels' level of resistance?
(a) Praying, reading his Bible, and baptizing fellow soldiers.
(b) Demonstrating courage, conviction, and traits of a gentleman.
(c) Fighting harder, resisting longer, and refusing to yield.
(d) Carousing and gambling, indicating he cares little going forward.

2. Why do the British opt not to hire the Hessian army to serve in the Colonies long before the American Revolution?
(a) They are too costly.
(b) They do not speak their language.
(c) They are not sufficiently skilled.
(d) They are not trustworthy.

3. Washington is not everyone's first choice as Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army. Why is he selected?
(a) Southern delegates insist on a Virginian.
(b) Southern delegates insist on a North Carolinian.
(c) Southern delegates insist on a Georgian.
(d) Northern delegates insist on a Pennsylvanian.

4. What does the British militia instruct beyond a general attitude?
(a) Use of the telegraph.
(b) Specific skills.
(c) How to hunt and cook.
(d) How to swim.

5. The British pacification policy runs into problems arising from a lack of supply, and troops commonly doing what?
(a) Purchasing from merchants.
(b) Exchanging British money.
(c) Foraging as needed.
(d) Purchasing from farmers.

Short Answer 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?

2. What do the British intend to do following their confrontation with the Americans on the New Jersey shoreline of the Hudson River?

3. In addition to size, intelligence, and energy, what additional criterion is considered when selecting the British light infantry?

4. What is the title of Thomas Paine's second pamphlet?

5. As George Washington makes plans for a surprise attack on Trenton, where do Richard and William Howe disperse the British forces?

(see the answer key)

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