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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Congress grant George Washington in order to build his new army?
(a) Reasonable power with limited restrictions.
(b) Full power within stipulated financial limitations.
(c) Full power using any means he sees fit.
(d) Highly limited power within strict guidelines.

2. In addition to size, intelligence, and energy, what additional criterion is considered when selecting the British light infantry?
(a) Hand-to-hand fighting skills.
(b) Marksmanship.
(c) Expertise with knives and sabers.
(d) Marital status.

3. What do the British learn after mastering the skill of marching?
(a) Reconnaissance.
(b) Hand-to-hand combat.
(c) Physical exercise.
(d) Use of weapons.

4. What do the British intend to do following their confrontation with the Americans on the New Jersey shoreline of the Hudson River?
(a) Force an American retreat without engaging them in battle.
(b) Compel the Americans into surrendering.
(c) Engage the Americans in battle and defeat them.
(d) Defeat the Americans in battle with minimal casualties on either side.

5. What happens in December, 1776, that changes the course of the war?
(a) Weather changes for the worse.
(b) The British run out of munitions.
(c) The Hessians quit.
(d) Weather changes for the better.

6. The opposing forces' problems are not directly due to the Americans, but from the failing strength of the British and Hessian forces reulting from what?
(a) Running out of food.
(b) Desertion of troops.
(c) Being spread too thin.
(d) Massive iIllness being incurred.

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

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

9. As the British convene, at what pace does their training continue?
(a) Slowly.
(b) Moderately.
(c) Furiously.
(d) Sporadically.

10. 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) 1778.
(c) 1777.
(d) 1775.

11. In the first chapter, "The Rebels," the author foreshadows upcoming events by initially using what term?
(a) His Highness.
(b) His Excellency.
(c) The Boss.
(d) The Admiral.

12. The Hessian troops are exhausted and want to move where to fully rest themselves?
(a) New York.
(b) Boston.
(c) Germany.
(d) Better quarters.

13. In the chapter entitled "The Crisis," the author notes people already use the title "his Excellency" when speaking to George Washington, but identifies what other term as having a very different tone to it?
(a) Tyrant.
(b) Oppressor.
(c) Dictator.
(d) Despot.

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) The amount of bloodshed.
(b) How few officers die.
(c) The endless supply of rebel weapons and munitions.
(d) The comparable military skills of the rebels.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. If a Hessian soldier misbehaves, who else suffers the same consequences?

2. What type of concept is the British light infantry?

3. When does Thomas Paine decide to publish another pamphlet similar to Common Sense?

4. Through where do the British and Hessian troops continue to chase the rebels in pursuit of their goal?

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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