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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the outcome of the resolutions presented to the Fairfax County committee?
(a) The Virginia Resolves.
(b) The Virginia Resolves.
(c) The Patriot Resolves.
(d) The Fairfax Resolves.

2. Which of the following was NOT an issue that Washington battled with Congress over?
(a) The need for more soldiers.
(b) The right to choose his own generals.
(c) The need to change the color of uniforms.
(d) The need for more supplies.

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

4. How many British ships arrived in the East River while Washington's men were positioned in Harlem?
(a) About a hundred.
(b) About fifty.
(c) One thousand.
(d) Nearly five hundred.

5. What does Ron Chernow base this book on George Washington?
(a) Martha Washington's journals.
(b) Washington's newly discovered papers.
(c) Papers of Washington's generals.
(d) Washington's archived presidential documents.

6. How many children did Washington's father have with his first wife?
(a) 2.
(b) 4.
(c) 7.
(d) 3.

7. After the royal governor disbanded the House of Burgesses for the second time, Washington and several other men met secretly and agreed to ______________________.
(a) Tax tea.
(b) Establish a local government.
(c) Cease all imports.
(d) Meet with the King of England.

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

9. George and Martha Washington married in January of what year?
(a) 1759.
(b) 1767.
(c) 1776.
(d) 1744.

10. Eight thousand ____________________ mercenaries joined the British army while Washington tried to hold New York.
(a) French.
(b) Hessian.
(c) Prussian.
(d) Russian.

11. Washington looked to his home as a way of creating for himself the appearance of a_______________________.
(a) Political candidate.
(b) Wealthy plantation owner.
(c) Rigid slave owner.
(d) Military man.

12. What was the fort that Washington and his men used in the campaign against the French in 1754?
(a) Fort Necessity.
(b) Fort Austerity.
(c) Fort Freedom.
(d) Fort Benning.

13. To what state did Washington march his troops after the losses in New York?
(a) Virginia.
(b) Vermont.
(c) Pennsylvania.
(d) Massachusetts.

14. Washington lost most of his support in Congress with the loss of which city?
(a) Saratoga Springs.
(b) Richmond.
(c) Philadelphia.
(d) Albany.

15. George Washington grew up in which state?
(a) Massachusetts.
(b) Maryland.
(c) Virginia.
(d) Ohio.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many children did the woman have when she married Washington?

2. What was Washington's demeanor during the time his portrait was painted?

3. Who did Washington decide to marry?

4. What event occurred which sent shockwaves through the colonies after the royal governor disbanded the House of Burgesses?

5. Washington was an accomplished __________________.

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