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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4, The Statesman: Chapters 38-45.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the greatest impact on Washington's life regarding his father's death?
(a) He could not go to boarding school.
(b) He had to take care of his mother.
(c) He had a bad reputation.
(d) He had no one to look up to.

2. Which office did Washington run for and win?
(a) Governor of Virginia.
(b) Mayor of Cornwall.
(c) A seat on the Richmond, Virginia, town council.
(d) A seat in the Frederick County House of Burgesses.

3. When did Washington inherit Mount Vernon?
(a) When he turned twenty-one.
(b) When his brother's wife and sister died.
(c) When his father died.
(d) When his mother died.

4. Washington was chronically in debt because _______________________.
(a) Martha spent too much on new clothes.
(b) He extensively traveled the world.
(c) He lived beyond his means.
(d) He was extremely generous to charities.

5. What was the name of the convention in #129?
(a) The Constitutional Convention.
(b) The Patriot Convention.
(c) The Confederation Convention.
(d) The Revolutionary Convention.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which army did Washington join in 1754?

2. General William Howe was replaced by whom after word of the French treat with the Americans?

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

4. Washington was born to a family of men who ____________________.

5. Which of the following was NOT an issue Washington tended to during most of 1782?

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