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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. The opposing forces' problems are not directly due to the Americans, but from the failing strength of the British and Hessian forces reulting from what?
(a) Running out of food.
(b) Desertion of troops.
(c) Massive iIllness being incurred.
(d) Being spread too thin.

2. 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) Summer, 1776.
(b) Winter, 1776.
(c) Spring, 1777.
(d) Fall, 1776.

3. Initially, General Washington and his remaining troops flee Long Island to what location?
(a) Manhattan.
(b) Queens.
(c) Staten Island.
(d) The Bronx.

4. At one point, what is it that haunts General William Howe about the Battle at Bunker Hill, which is eventually won by the British?
(a) The endless supply of rebel weapons and munitions.
(b) How few officers die.
(c) The amount of bloodshed.
(d) The comparable military skills of the rebels.

5. Where in New York Harbor do the British and Hessian armies arrive?
(a) Staten Island.
(b) Long Island.
(c) Brooklyn.
(d) Manhatten.

Short Answer 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?

2. Who does not allow the Hessians the rest they request?

3. What is Thomas Paine's intention in publishing his second pamphlet?

4. What do the British intend to do following their confrontation with the Americans on the New Jersey shoreline of the Hudson River?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does the British military approach training?

3. Why was George Washington selected as commander-in-chief of the American army?

4. When they arrive in America, the British army consists of what elements?

5. What does Thomas Paine seek to change with his second pamphlet, entitled "The American Crisis," in November 1776?

6. As their enemy comes to suffer heavy losses as the war progresses, why is it the American system proves superior?

7. What does the author note regarding the roles order and discipline have in the victories and the defeats?

8. Why is it in this chapter, "The Crisis," that the author mentions that some people refer to George Washington as a dictator?

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

10. How does the Hessian army become involved in the American Revolution?

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