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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 unwillingness to give their lives to the effort.
(c) Their maintaining their lodging in disarray and constantly soiled.
(d) Their virtual inability to utilize firearms.

2. After General Washington leaves New York, where do the British follow the Americans over the Hudson River ?
(a) Plymouth Rock.
(b) Passaic.
(c) Palisades.
(d) Palomar.

3. The Hessian system of discipline differs from that of the British in that the Hessians make greater use of what?
(a) Corporal punishment.
(b) Uniform Code of Military Justice.
(c) Royal legal system.
(d) Requiring extra drill practice.

4. 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) Northern delegates insist on a Pennsylvanian.
(d) Southern delegates insist on a Georgian.

5. In what battle do the Americans lose New York to their enemy?
(a) Fort Lewis.
(b) Fort Albany.
(c) Fort Washington.
(d) Fort Lee.

Short Answer Questions

1. "Washington's Crossing" is a story about which war?

2. In addition to a tendency to lose officers after long engagements in America, the British and Hessians suffer troop losses due to what?

3. Military training is important to the British as they feel it enforces what?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is the war victory celebrated by Bostonians premature when the British leave town and George Washington and his men march through as heroes?

2. When they arrive in America, the British army consists of what elements?

3. How do the Hessians and British military forces differ in their approach to discipline?

4. How does misinformation cost George Washington the Battle of Long Island in August of 1776?

5. What does the author note regarding the roles order and discipline have in the victories and the defeats?

6. What events at the end of 1776 are foreshadowed early within the chapter entitled "The Retreat?"

7. How does George Washington fare in Manhattan in 1776?

8. What is General William Howe's view regarding the British chances of defeating the American rebels following the Battle of Bunker Hill?

9. How does the British pacification policy run into problems arising from problems of supply?

10. What is an interesting fact the author notes regarding the American attitude during their retreat through New Jersey?

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