Benedict Arnold Quiz

A detailed and historically accurate illustration of Benedict Arnold in a Revolutionary War setting, showing him in a military uniform with a conflicted expression, surrounded by symbols of betrayal and American freedom.

Test Your Knowledge of Benedict Arnold

Step into the shoes of one of the most controversial figures of the American Revolution, Benedict Arnold! This interactive quiz will challenge you to make decisions based on Arnold's early life, military career, and infamous betrayal. Will you choose the path of a hero or a traitor?

Explore key events in Arnold's life.
Make choices that reflect his dilemmas.
Learn about the impact of his actions on American history.

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You are Benedict Arnold. You come from a long line of Americans, and your ancestor was in fact a founder of the Rhode Island community. However, your father has gone into depression after losing three of his children. He has taken up drinking, and is deeply in debt. What do you do?

Run away from home to seek out a new life in the West

Go to a private school to become educated then engage in an apprenticeship

Scare your father away from the pubs by engaging a mob to beat him out of each pub he went to

Put up with his drinking and debts, but plot to seek your revenge upon him one day.

You have become a relatively wealthy merchant by now, and own three ships. One day, you hear about the skirmishes at Lexington and Concorde between the Americans and the British. What will you do?

Risk everything that you have to fight for the American cause. You are so glad that someone is finally fighting for their liberties and heartily support the revolution, willing to give your life to it.

Remain neutral until you figure out who is on the winning side. By doing this you ensure that your business remains intact, while at the same time can claim you fought for the right cause and was on the winning side.

You agree with the American cause, and do badly want to support it. However, you feel the American’s have little chance to win the war, and you don’t want to risk your job for the revolution. So you choose to secretly supply badly needed goods to the Americans while pretending to remain neutral.

Fight for the British. After all, your ancestors were all from Britain, and it isn’t like the British have done anything to specifically harm you. Besides, you owe them because they helped you to win the Seven Year War.

After joining up with George Washington’s army, where do you launch your first attack?

In your home city, by blowing up city hall with gunpowder. Destroying it will inflict a huge moral loss on the part of the British.

Your first battle against the British is under the very first president of the United States himself! Unfortunately, he still hasn’t learnt his lessons from the Seven Year War and your forces are severely crippled. This is when you realize that the American cause might not really be worth fighting for after all…

With Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain Boys! Though you fight with each other for a while, you lay aside your problems and take Ticonderoga. After which you and a small band march onto Lake Champlain, and capture it from the British. Too easy mate…

With a band of your most trusted friends, you launch a guerrilla war against the British. Soon, just the mention of your name so great a terror in even the greatest British warriors that leaves them scrambling for the toilets! There must have been a lot of toilets in America back then…

Although Benedict Arnold won many battles, he also had several defeats. Which is regarded as his greatest defeat ever?

The Battle of Montreal. Benedict Arnold lost the battle because he refused to give his officers command of their own soldiers, and therefore greatly increased the chain of command

The Battle of Montreal. Benedict Arnold lost this battle because his men were inexperienced, and he had too few men to invade Montreal. And the superb British firepower was simply too great.

The Battle of Monte Carlo. Benedict Arnold spent too much of his time there gambling, and not actually fighting the war. His troops were in fact better that those of the British, but Arnold was busy gambling away, causing the leaderless American Patriots to be completely defeated by the British.

The Battle of Montreal. Benedict Arnold attempted to fight in the winter, and on his journey there, due to the cold, many of his men died. Then, Benedict Arnold was forced to launch a strategically poor move of sending all his troops in at once, because the soldier's contract ended on New Years Day, which was on the next day.

In the Summer of 1776, you predict that the British are planning to launch a massive invasion down Lake Champlain. You have few ships and men, and there is no hope of defending against such a massive British invasion, especially if the British halt to build up a fleet of ships to destroy you. What do you choose to do?

Launch a surprise attack on the British as they come down to Lake Champlain. Hopefully you are able to take most of them down without sustaining too many injuries, so that when you face them at Lake Champlain, their forces will be severely weakened, and you might have hopes of beating them at the lake.

Retreat down Lake Champlain. Your duty there is done, and it is best if you consolidate your troops with Washington’s so, in a combined effort, you think you might be able to repel the British.

Stay and fight immediately when the British come to you. Though you may all perish, there is nothing more glorious than dying in war! In fact, you will earn fame forever if you die a hero in battle. No matter if you force other thousand or so soldiers to die with you.

Stay and build up as many ships as possible. If the British are allowed to control the lake, they could launch an invasion of Washington’s troops, which were scattered. Your only hope is to delay the British for as long as possible to allow Washington to consolidate his troops, and join him,

Another war! This time, though, you are put under the command of General Horatio Gates at the Battle of Bernis Height. You and him will quickly grow to hate each other. In fact, he even relieved you at a point under his command. Here, you help the Patriots to ensure a decisive victory against the British. How?

Horatio Gates instructed you to take charge of a group of American soldiers, and with them, you lead an assault on the British lines, which scatters the enemies. Without that, you might never have won the victory.

You defy that old fool's command (probably with relish), and launch an assault on the British line with several American soldiers causing them to scatter. Unfortunately, you are injured in the leg, and is unable to continue fighting where you are posted as a military governor at Philadelphia.

By inventing the hand grenade, you are able to decimate the British line, helping you easily win the war. The next plan on your blueprints? The hydrogen bomb!

Decisive victory yes, but not for the Americans! This is when you choose to betray the Americans. Furious that Gates relieved you, you hold a secret meeting with the British command and tell them of a weak point in the American’s line, encouraging them to attack it. The perfect revenge against Gates.

Despite all the military victories that you have helped the Americans too, they still remain ungrateful towards you. They seem to consistently ignore you. First Gates steals all the credit for your strategic maneuver at Bernis Height and claims it as his own. Then five junior officers are promoted above you despite all your services (which are a lot). Oh, and if that doesn’t make you mad, finally a lawyer by the name of Joseph Reed seems to have a bone to pick with you, and has launched an investigation into your conduct. Really! You, a favourite of the people, an emblem of national authority, and a hero to the war! What does he accuse you of?

He accuses you of being a traitor and a spy, betraying the Patriots. This is all true, and you try to escape to New York before he can put you on trial.

He tries to trial you for insuborbination when you disobeyed Horatio Gates. Even though you did the right thing, he still dares to trial you?

He has accused you of eight extremely trivial charges, all of them based on mere speculation! (It is true, however, that you are actually guilty of some of the charges, but you know no one can prove it or believes you actually did it).

He accuses you of betraying the cause by marrying a British-born lady, Peggy, who might be sympathetic to the British, after your first wife died.

You are seriously considering to defect to the British now, as Joseph Reed continues to try to court martial you and gain more evidence for his trial. Your wife, Peggy, also is encouraging you to defect. Finally, there is the lure of money in becoming an informant to the British. What else is there?

You wanted to become famous, and by getting found out as betraying your cause, you will gain the infamy that you need. Infamous people are infinitely more famous than good people.

The British are holding you in higher regard than the Americans. For example, John Burgoyne, the general who surrendered his forces at Saratoga said that he would have won the battle had it not been for Benedict Arnold. Then the Royal Gazette said that “General Arnold … had been styled another Hannibal, but losing a leg in the service of the Congress, … permit him thus to fall into the unmerciful fangs of the executive council of Pennsylvania”.

You are sick and tired of the war effort, and it seems like the common American people have some sort of contempt towards the Continental Army, and prefer supporting local militia groups, also called minutemen.

Although you might be most remembered for your great victory at the Battle of Saratoga in 1777, where you, defeated the British and France lent their support to the Americans, most historians today believed that your final act of service came …

The Battle at Montreal. Although you may have lost that battle, the amount of damage and fear you inflicted on the British there far outweighed the losses your men sustained.

At the Battle at Massachusetts Bay. You, along with just three hundred men held off British warships trying to land at the harbour and sank three of their ships. The British troops which had been sent to help the war effort were forced to try and land somewhere else, delaying their deployment, and helped to allow the revolutionists to quickly overrun the rest of the cities.

When you wrote a book about the war and begged British people to fight for the Revolution back at home. This led to Oliver Cromwell’s ‘Glorious Revolution’.

When you attempted to betray your fellow Americans and gave up the cause to try and support the British. By making this act of betrayal, you helped to re-energize the moral of the American soldiers.

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