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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Fall of New York.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. An illness tears through the troops that fight against the Americans during the summer of what year in the latter half of the 1770s?
(a) 1777.
(b) 1778.
(c) 1776.
(d) 1775.

2. "Washington's Crossing" concerns what river?
(a) Delaware.
(b) Potomac.
(c) Connecticut.
(d) Hudson.

3. How does British military training compare with that of the American Revolutionaries?
(a) Virtually the same.
(b) Identical.
(c) Fairly similar.
(d) Significantly different.

4. What are the first British battalions to land?
(a) Light infantry, then heavy artillery.
(b) Grenadiers, then light infantry.
(c) Light infantry, then grenadiers.
(d) Cavalry, then light infantry.

5. What do the people view Washington as being?
(a) Best suited to plantation management.
(b) A true leader.
(c) Strictly a politician.
(d) A poor military leader.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what battle do the Americans lose New York to their enemy?

2. Who expands the Hessian army?

3. The officers of the Hessian army all believe in hierarchy, order, and what else?

4. What is one important way the Americans display their lack of training and discipline?

5. Where in New York Harbor do the British and Hessian armies arrive?

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