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Fort Pickens Trivia

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 50mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who was Fort Pickens named after?

a)

George Washington

b)

Abraham Lincoln

c)

Andrew Pickens

d)

Thomas Jefferson

2.

True or False, Fort Pickens is not the largest fort in a group of forts that were designed to protect Pensacola.

a)

True

b)

False

3.

Who was the Apache war chief that was imprisoned in Fort Pickens?

a)

Osceola

b)

Geronimo

c)

Powhatan

d)

Tecumseh

4.

Fort Pickens is shaped as

a)

a pentagon

b)

a hexagon

c)

a rectangle

d)

a triangle

5.

True or False, some historians believe that the first shots of the Civil War were fired at Fort Pickens.

a)

True

b)

False

6.

When did the construction of Fort Pickens end?

a)

1824

b)

1839

c)

1829

d)

1834

7.

How many years ago was Fort Pickens built?

a)

154

b)

174

c)

164

d)

184

8.

Using the information found in the paragraph found under the heading "Civil War," what does the word dilapidated mean?

a)

glorious

b)

beautiful

c)

run down

d)

stable

9.

True or False, There were more than 21 million bricks used to build the fort.

a)

True

b)

False

10.

How many years did it take to build Fort Pickens?

a)

5 years

b)

10 years

c)

1 year

d)

15 years