image

Read the First Chapter

Trivia Quiz

Don't Know Much About History

Test your knowledge

1) Which of the thirteen colonies was originally called New Sweden?
a) New Hampshire
b) Connecticut
c) Delaware
d) Maryland

2) Who was the first American caught spying for the British during the Revolutionary War?
a) Benedict Arnold
b) Benjamin Church
c) Nathan Hale
d) James Otis

3) What right is guaranteed in the seventh amendment?
a) Trial by jury
b) Bearing arms
c) Freedom to worship
d) Freedom of Speech

4) Who was the last U.S. president to serve more than two terms in office?
a) Theodore Roosevelt
b) Franklin Roosevelt
c) Thomas Jefferson
d) Woodrow Wilson

5) Who said "Don't give up the ship," which became the Navy's rallying cry?
a) James Lawrence
b) Stephen Decatur
c) Oliver Perry
d) Isaac Chauncey

6) Who was the first President to die while in office?
a) Zachary Taylor
b) Abraham Lincoln
c) William Henry Harrison
d) Martin Van Buren

7) What book would Americans have been reading in 1948?
a) The Naked and the Dead
b) On the Road
c) The Catcher in the Rye
d) The Lonely Crowd

8) What American author was dismissed from West Point?
a) Nathaniel Hawthorne
b) Edgar Allen Poe
c) Herman Melville
d) Henry David Thoreau

9) The signing of what document formally ended World War I?
a) Treaty of Paris
b) Treaty of Versailles
c) Allied Treaty
d) League of Nations Treaty

10) What financier bailed out a nearly bankrupt U.S. government in 1895?
a) Cornelius Vanderbuilt
b) Andrew Carnegie
c) John P. Morgan
d) John D. Rockefeller