1. In what year was the flag first authorized by Congress? a. 1777; b. 1776; c. 1778 2. When was the flag first carried into battle? a. September 11, 1776; b. September 11, 1777; c. September 11, 1778 3. What battle was this? a. Battle of Saratoga; b. Battle of Monmouth; c. Battle of Brandywine 4. Over what foreign territory did it first fly in early 1778? a. Fort Augustine, Florida; b. Nassau, Bahamas; c. San Francisco, California 5. From what fort was the flag first flown in 1777? a. Fort Stanwix (New York); b. Fort Independence (Massachusetts); c. Fort Mifflin (Pennsylvania) 6. Originally it was decreed that the flag would have one star for each state and also one ______ for each state. a. bar; b. stripe; c. fleur-de-lis 7. When Vermont, in 1791, and Kentucky, in 1792, were admitted to the Union, what had to be increased to 15 in the flag? a. stripes; b. stars; c. stripes and stars 8. To avoid exorbitant cloth demands, Congress decided to limit the number of stripes to 13, representing the original 13 states, and add a star for each succeeding state. What year was that? a. 1793? b. 1818; c.1812 9. What name was given to the flag by William Driver, a 19th- century sea captain? a. Old Glory; b. Stars & Stripes; c. the Betsy Ross 10. Who said this about the flag? "We take the stars from heaven, the red from our mother country, separating it by white stripes, thus showing that we have separated from her, and the white stripes shall go down to posterity representing liberty."? a. Thomas Jefferson; b. Patrick Henry; c. George Washington [The answers are in the following e-mail.]