Washington: A Life Quiz | Eight Week Quiz G

Ron Chernow
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 127 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Washington: A Life Quiz | Eight Week Quiz G

Ron Chernow
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 127 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 6, The Legacy: Chapters 64-67.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Martha Washington free the slaves when she did?
(a) She wanted to maintain social propriety.
(b) She was afraid for her safety.
(c) She wanted to relieve her conscience.
(d) She did not free them.

2. Who was a French ambassador to the United States during the French Revolution?
(a) Charles Phillipe Brun.
(b) Francois Bernard Dupont.
(c) Jacques Laurent David.
(d) Edmond-Charles Genet.

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

4. In what month and year was the portrait of George Washington painted?
(a) December, 1789.
(b) July ,1776.
(c) April, 1799.
(d) March, 1793.

5. Who was the envoy who Washington sent to England to demand the end of their seizing American ships and imprisoning American citizens they thought were British deserters?
(a) William Westmoreland.
(b) John Jay.
(c) Henry Knox.
(d) James Fairfax.

Short Answer Questions

1. Washington was involved in the design and construction of the ______________________.

2. To deal with his discomfort with strangers, Washington confined social meetings to a weekly ________________ he would hold in his home each Tuesday.

3. Who helped Washington write his farewell address which was run in several newspapers in 1796?

4. What did Mount Vernon require from Washington upon his return from war?

5. In the Fall on 1755, Washington was made supreme commander of all military forces in _______________.

(see the answer key)

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