6. Document Project 6: Women in the Revolution

Quiz for Document 6.5 Christian Barnes, Letter to Elizabeth Inman, April 29, 1775

Quiz for Document 6.5: Christian Barnes, Letter to Elizabeth Inman, April 29, 1775

Choose the best answer to each question.

1. According to Christian Barnes, how might her husband return to his family from his hiding place in Marlborough, Massachusetts?

Apologizing for his Loyalist views

Requesting a pass from authorities

Sneaking through the guard lines at night

Disguising himself as a patriot merchant

2. Who prevented the forceful soldier from further assaulting Mrs. Barnes?

Col. Putnam

Col. Whitcomb

Elizabeth Inman

Strangers

3. What does Mrs. Barnes’s experience say about the situation in the colonies in the spring of 1775?

Loyalists were in danger from consistent militia and Continental Army raids.

The Continental Army was already so defeated that their soldiers looted for food.

Women were often targeted based on their husband’s politics.

British soldiers had little control over their soldiers in the colonies.

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