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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

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) 1778.
(b) 1776.
(c) 1777.
(d) 1775.

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

3. In 1776, the British start to get cocky in their attitude toward the rebellion and do not think that it will survive beyond what point?
(a) Fall, 1776.
(b) Summer, 1776.
(c) Spring, 1777.
(d) Winter, 1776.

4. How frequently does the leader of the Hessian army conduct drills?
(a) Alternating days.
(b) Daily.
(c) Weekly.
(d) Sporadically.

5. "Washington's Crossing" is a story about which war?
(a) Mexican.
(b) French and Indian.
(c) American Revolutionary.
(d) Spanish-American.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Hessian troops are exhausted and want to move where to fully rest themselves?

2. What is the overall goal of the British in America?

3. How successful is Thomas Paine in achieving his goal with his second pamphlet?

4. The author's mentioning of Congress' taking steps toward a system of separate legislative and executive powers foreshadows what?

5. What happens in December, 1776, that changes the course of the war?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does General Cornwallis instruct his troops to do in New Jersey?

2. How do the Hessians and British military forces differ in their approach to discipline?

3. How does the British pacification policy run into problems arising from problems of supply?

4. Why do the British and Hessians come to incur heavy losses as the war progresses?

5. What is General William Howe's view regarding the British chances of defeating the American rebels following the Battle of Bunker Hill?

6. How does misinformation cost George Washington the Battle of Long Island in August of 1776?

7. Why is George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River considered the turning point in the American Revolutionary War?

8. What causes the British to feel slightly vulnerable to attack?

9. What do the Van Horne, Stockton, and other prominent New Jersey families, have in common during the Revolution?

10. "Washington's Crossing" by David Hackett Fischer is the story about what?

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