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

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

3. After what battle has General William Howe essentially given up?
(a) Long Island.
(b) Yorktown.
(c) Bunker Hill.
(d) Trenton.

4. The author describes Richard Stockton, as well as members of other notable New Jersey families, as having done what?
(a) Being unswayed loyalists.
(b) Being staunch revolutionaries.
(c) Remaining independent of either side.
(d) Playing both sides in the Revolution.

5. In what month of 1776 do the Americans lose the Battle of Long Island?
(a) August.
(b) June.
(c) Early September.
(d) July.

Short Answer Questions

1. How are Admiral Lord Richard and General William Howe related?

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

3. General Washington believes that only 20% of British forces are on Long Island and are ready for battle. In reality, what is this percentage?

4. When the Americans initially flee Long Island, what initially prevents their enemy from catching up?

5. The summer illness that plagues those fighting the Americans in the latter half of the 1770s strikes which troops?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. "Washington's Crossing" by David Hackett Fischer is the story about what?

3. What are the foundational elements behind the British military?

4. From what source do the Hessians draw their troops?

5. What does General Cornwallis instruct his troops to do in New Jersey?

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

7. Although the British eventually gain the upper hand at the Battle of Bunker Hill, what is it that so affects General William Howe?

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 misinformation cost George Washington the Battle of Long Island in August of 1776?

10. Why is it in this chapter, "The Crisis," that the author mentions that some people refer to George Washington as a dictator?

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