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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, The General: Chapters 16-26.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why would Washington feel inadequate around people all his life?
(a) The lack of a formal education.
(b) He had wooden teeth.
(c) He was so much taller than everyone else.
(d) He started to go bald at an early age.

2. How many children did the woman have when she married Washington?
(a) 2.
(b) 1.
(c) 5.
(d) 3.

3. When Washington married the woman in #53, he became a very wealthy man by appearances only because much of the money was set aside for _________________________.
(a) The military.
(b) Taxes.
(c) Her children.
(d) The county.

4. Washington would spend the rest of his life in the role of ___________________________.
(a) Executor of the Custis estate.
(b) Ungrateful son.
(c) County commissioner.
(d) Church of England deacon.

5. Washington saw himself as a/an _________________ slaveholder.
(a) Kind.
(b) Uninvolved.
(c) Dictatorial.
(d) Absentee.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the surname of Martha's children?

2. The people of which states continued to support the British during the Revolutionary War?

3. Washington looked to his home as a way of creating for himself the appearance of a_______________________.

4. Who was Washington's eldest half-brother with whom he spent a lot of time after his father's death?

5. Who was the woman Washington held a mildly flirtatious relationship with for many years?

(see the answer key)

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