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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Washington do in an attempt to preserve his image for prosperity?
(a) Sat for life masks.
(b) Sketched some self portraits.
(c) Had people draw caricatures.
(d) Sat for several portraits.

2. In what city did Washington serve as the president of the new country?
(a) New York.
(b) Philadelphia.
(c) Baltimore.
(d) Richmond.

3. As the war raged on in the South, Washington continued to push for a siege of __________________.
(a) New York.
(b) Maryland.
(c) Virginia.
(d) New Jersey.

4. Which foreign dignitary did Washington remain friends with after the war?
(a) Clinton.
(b) Burgoyne.
(c) Cornwallis.
(d) Lafayette.

5. General William Howe was replaced by whom after word of the French treat with the Americans?
(a) General Henry Clinton.
(b) General William Burgoyne.
(c) General James Lattimore.
(d) General Henry Fairfax.

6. What did Washington put efforts toward preserving after the war?
(a) His uniforms.
(b) His weapons.
(c) His friendships.
(d) His war papers.

7. Which of the following was NOT an issue Washington tended to during most of 1782?
(a) Getting pay for soldiers.
(b) The fate of British prisoners.
(c) Approving war monuments.
(d) Receiving accolades for his war service.

8. What disease broke out in Washington in 1793?
(a) Yellow Fever.
(b) Tuberculosis.
(c) Cholera.
(d) Malaria.

9. The overwhelming problem Washington had to deal with in the Summer of 1794 was a rebellion in Virginia and Pennsylvania against ____________________.
(a) Women's rights.
(b) The whiskey tax.
(c) The income tax.
(d) Civil rights.

10. What was a point of contention between Washington and a foreign dignitary who remained his friend?
(a) Washington would not support the French army.
(b) Washington did not want any military honors.
(c) Washington continued to own slaves.
(d) Washington would not give him an American military distinction.

11. Washington learned that Benedict Arnold had been conspiring with the British to capture ____________________.
(a) Washington.
(b) New York.
(c) Philadelphia.
(d) West Point.

12. What did Washington help plan while at the location in #102?
(a) The Declaration of Independence.
(b) The Battle of Yorktown.
(c) The Boston Tea Party.
(d) The blueprints for the White House.

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

14. 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) Henry Knox.
(c) James Fairfax.
(d) John Jay.

15. Washington was always conscious of the __________________ he would leave for future generations.
(a) Money.
(b) Monuments.
(c) Photographs.
(d) Impression.

Short Answer Questions

1. Washington found himself __________________ by the poor attitude of the very people he and his soldiers were fighting for.

2. What was the name of the treaty John Jay reached with the British that angered the American people?

3. Who was a French ambassador to the United States during the French Revolution?

4. Alexander Hamilton delivered the Report on Public Credit that included his assertion that the federal government should take on the states' debts ________________________.

5. While struggling financially, Washington toured his properties in __________________ to collect rent and evict squatters.

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