Quiz  /  Understanding the American Revolution Quiz

  • 1. 
    Where was “the shot heard ’round the world” fired?

  • Lexington
  • Glastonbury
  • Concord
  • Bennington

  • 2. 
    Paul Revere’s “midnight ride” to warn the colonists in Lexington and Concord of the approach of British troops was immortalized by which poet?

  • James Russell Lowell
  • John Greenleaf Whittier
  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • William Carlos Williams

  • 3. 
    This battle for the heights of Charlestown, Massachusetts, was actually fought mostly on Breed’s Hill.

  • Battle of Little Round Top
  • Battle of Pork Chop Hill
  • Battle of Primrose Hill
  • Battle of Bunker Hill

  • 4. 
    Why did the Continental Army have trouble staying up to strength?

  • It had trouble for all these reasons.
  • The individual colonies competed with the Continental Congress to keep men in their militias.
  • Farmers didn’t like being away from their fields.
  • The colonists traditionally disliked regular armies.

  • 5. 
    George Washington led troops across the Delaware River on Christmas night in 1776 to surprise a Hessian garrison at which New Jersey town?

  • Patterson
  • Trenton
  • Newark
  • Princeton

  • 6. 
    Benedict Arnold is remembered as a traitor for plotting to turn over American forces at West Point to the British, but earlier in the war he had been an American hero.

  • True
  • False

  • 7. 
    As captain of the Ranger and the Bonhomme Richard, this American naval hero menaced the coasts of Britain.

  • John Bonham
  • John George Paul
  • James Earl Jones
  • John Paul Jones

  • 8. 
    Which country or countries joined the United States in the fight against the British during the American Revolution?

  • All of these
  • Netherlands
  • Spain
  • France

  • 9. 
    During the American Revolution, Britain was threatened by invasion by France.

  • True
  • False

  • 10. 
    Lord Cornwallis surrendered his forces after the Franco-American siege of which Virginia town in October 1781?

  • Yorktown
  • Fredericksburg
  • Jamestown
  • Yorkville
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