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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Heights, The Loss of Philadelphia and The Conway Cabal.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What year did the First Continental Congress meet?
(a) 1775.
(b) 1773.
(c) 1774.
(d) 1776.

2. What did Washington understand about the American people regarding British control?
(a) The American people could not remain under this control.
(b) The American people were content.
(c) The American people were good partners with the British.
(d) The American people should have supported Spain.

3. Who was Horatio Gates?
(a) A merchant.
(b) A British military officer.
(c) An attorney.
(d) A British immigrant and military genius.

4. Who did Washington marry?
(a) Betsy Ross.
(b) Sally Fairfax.
(c) Mary Dandridge Custis.
(d) Martha Dandridge Custis.

5. Who covered his face in fear that Washington had been killed?
(a) General Howe.
(b) Lord Cornwallis.
(c) Colonel Richard Fitzgerald.
(d) General Greene.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Joseph Reed?

2. How many years did Washington want military tours of duty to be?

3. Who was in charge of the British forces in Germantown?

4. Who realized that " Washington's magic was still so great that Congress would not vote to discharge him"?

5. Which two countries began battling in the United States in 1755?

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