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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What other group of individuals plays both sides well during the American Revolutionary War?
(a) Tavern and inn owners.
(b) Physicians.
(c) Farmers.
(d) Merchants.

2. Where does General William Howe become part of a strong demonstration intended to force the Colonists back to their proper allegiance?
(a) Long Island.
(b) Trenton.
(c) Philadelphia.
(d) Boston.

3. 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 are not sufficiently skilled.
(c) They are not trustworthy.
(d) They do not speak their language.

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

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

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

7. In order to put the Americans down and keep them down, General William Howe feels the British will have to be what?
(a) Very resistant.
(b) Very positive.
(c) Very aggressive.
(d) Very regressive.

8. While officers of the Hessian army all have specific beliefs, by what are these men defined?
(a) Courage and wealth.
(b) Honor and aristocracy.
(c) Courage and honor.
(d) Aristocracy and wealth.

9. Where does the Americans' intelligence methodology work better than it had in New York?
(a) Harlem.
(b) Harpers Ferry.
(c) Boston.
(d) Hudson River Valley.

10. "Washington's Crossing" is a story about which war?
(a) French and Indian.
(b) Mexican.
(c) American Revolutionary.
(d) Spanish-American.

11. General William Howe feels he knows something else. What is it?
(a) Under sufficient pressure, the rebels will concede to the King's troops.
(b) The rebels will join the King's troops in opposition to the Hessians.
(c) The rebels will never see eye to eye with the King's troops.
(d) The rebels will be willing to negotiate with the King's troops.

12. How does British military training compare with that of the American Revolutionaries?
(a) Identical.
(b) Virtually the same.
(c) Fairly similar.
(d) Significantly different.

13. From where do most of the high-ranking Hessian officers come?
(a) Hesse, a province in western Russia.
(b) The aristocracy.
(c) The middle-class.
(d) Sandhurst Royal Military Academy.

14. At one point, what is it that haunts General William Howe about the Battle at Bunker Hill, which is eventually won by the British?
(a) How few officers die.
(b) The endless supply of rebel weapons and munitions.
(c) The comparable military skills of the rebels.
(d) The amount of bloodshed.

15. What is a big issue facing the American rebels?
(a) Overload of ammunition supplies.
(b) Lack of courage.
(c) Lack of enemy intelligence.
(d) Lack of dedication.

Short Answer Questions

1. As the British convene, at what pace does their training continue?

2. Until the point in "Washington's Crossing" where the Americans cross the river and make a surprise attack, they suffer what types of defeat?

3. After General Washington leaves New York, where do the British follow the Americans over the Hudson River ?

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

5. What does Congress grant George Washington in order to build his new army?

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