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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Mental Confusion, Politics at Sunset, Washington and Slavery and Death of a Hero.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which person surprised the British at Stony Point?
(a) Thomas Conway.
(b) General Washington.
(c) General Anthony Wayne.
(d) Lord Cornwallis.

2. What document, written by Thomas Paine, renewed patriotic enthusiasm?
(a) Declaration of Independence.
(b) U.S. Constitution.
(c) Common Sense.
(d) Rhetoric.

3. What imaginary line was the border for very little capital investment?
(a) North-South line.
(b) Mason-Dixon line.
(c) East-West line.
(d) No Compromise line.

4. Where did Washington buy his best clothes?
(a) A local store in Virginia.
(b) A local store near Mount Vernon.
(c) Countries abroad.
(d) Washington, D.C.

5. What was in the worst shape in Mount Vernon?
(a) Washington's farms.
(b) The streets.
(c) The church.
(d) Washington's house.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was George Washington's most prominent relative's occupation?

2. What did the convention scrap after five days of meeting?

3. How many French warships appeared in the New York Harbor in 1793?

4. What did the British say they would do once the peace treaty was signed?

5. Whose resignation did Washington receive on July 31, 1793?

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