George Washington Illustrated Biography Quiz 1

Pages 1-40    Chapters 1-7

1.       What year was George Washington  to cross the Delaware.
2.       When Washington came into Philadelphia who made up the honor escort?  p4
3.       What happened in the New York Bay on that day?

4.       Who, of all the American Presidents was educated the least?    Who acted as his mentor?

5.       What date did the inauguration take place?   Who was the Vice president?p8

6.       What was the War of Jenkin’s Ear?    And what did it have to do with Geo. Washington?

7.       What year were the ballots cast of the first Electoral College.

8.       Did George Washington wear a wig and dentures?

9.       When the British minister compared his King George III to the sun and then Minister France said his king, Louis XVI to the moon what did Benjamin Franklin say in his toast about the American President?

10.   Geo Washington was born on what modern date?   P 17

11.   From whom Did George inherit Mt. Vernon?  How?

12.   Who were his  parents?   How and when did his parents die? p 17

13.   What day were the electoral  ballots opened?

14.   How tall was George Washington?

15.   What month did George’s mother die?  What was  Mrs Washingtons first name?

16.   Who wrote to tell George W the news of the vote of the electoral college. p 1

17.   What freak summer event happened to George’s mother when she was pregnant with him that made her worry for the unborn baby? p 17

18.   Washington loved dating with pretty young women.  He compared dancing to war and said it was what? p 38

19.   What colony was George born in? p 20

20.   How many siblings and half-siblings did he have? p 22

21.   How was Washington educated as a child? p 23

22.   Who wrote stories about Washington as a child and invented the cherry tree story? p 24

23.   How did Washington attract small pox. p 40

24.   What real story had to do with George riding a wild horse? And who did he relate it to? p 28

25.   On the advice of her brother, Mother Washington refused to let George do what when he was fourteen? p 30
1. 1776, Dec. 25th night
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4  Washington,
5  Apr 30, 1789,   John Adams
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7   1776, February
8   ivory dentures, yes, wooden, no and no wig ever.
9. Washington is as Joshua of old who commanded the sun and moon to stand still and they obeyed him.
10  Feb 22, 1732
11 From his half sibling Lawrence when he died and his daughter/heir Sarah also.
12Augustine and Mary Washington
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16  John Langdon, Pres of the Senate
17 A lightning strike killed the girl next to her.  Her knife and fork she held melted.
18  It is a "gentler conflict."
19  Virginia
20  Three halfs and 6 full siblings
21.  Self educated
22. Mason Locke Weems and early biographer
23  At a party
24  It bucked and bucked and died on the spot.  His mother. she said I rejoice in a son who tells truth.
25. Join the navy.