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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Hessians.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Military training is important to the British as they feel it enforces what?
(a) Adoption of skills.
(b) Troop obedience.
(c) Use of equipment.
(d) Understanding of bugle calls.

2. What do the British learn after mastering the skill of marching?
(a) Use of weapons.
(b) Reconnaissance.
(c) Hand-to-hand combat.
(d) Physical exercise.

3. The first chapter, "The Rebels," foreshadows what events?
(a) The hardest struggles yet to come in the Revolution.
(b) The death of Washington prior to the end of the war.
(c) The struggles in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia and the Carolinas.
(d) The death of Benjamin Franklin prior to the end of the war..

4. How many Hessian soldiers do the British hire?
(a) Hundreds of thousands.
(b) Tens of thousands.
(c) Several thousand.
(d) Several hundred.

5. At what rate does the Hessian army expand?
(a) Very rapidly.
(b) Somewhat quickly.
(c) Steadily.
(d) Slowly.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the British eventually hire the Hessian troops?

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

3. When does the American Revolutionary War take place?

4. The Hessian system of discipline differs from that of the British in that the Hessians make greater use of what?

5. From where do most of the high-ranking Hessian officers come?

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