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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 16 through 28.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why don't the soldiers trust the Corporal on the way to the battle?
(a) He's leading them in the wrong direction.
(b) He keeps changing the number of men they'll be fighting.
(c) He is drunk.
(d) He keeps stopping to nap.

2. What is Jonathan hoping as he heads toward the sound of the bell?
(a) That he will fight in a big battle.
(b) That his parents will forgive him for fighting.
(c) That he will not have to fight.
(d) That the battle will be small.

3. Who holds Alexandria, Fleming and Well's Ferry at the beginning of the story?
(a) The British.
(b) The Tories.
(c) The Americans.
(d) The Hessians.

4. Why does Jonathan's mother worry about his older brother?
(a) They've only received one letter from him since he went to war.
(b) She doesn't believe what he writes in his letters from the battlefield.
(c) They've received word that he was wounded in the war.
(d) They've heard nothing from him since he went to war.

5. What is Jonathan's father's attitude toward Jonathan going to war?
(a) He is ambivalent about it.
(b) He wholly supports it.
(c) He forbids it.
(d) He cautiously allows it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when the Corporal invites the men to replace him?

2. What is the tavern made of?

3. When was the last time Jonathan was as far from home as he is on the way to the battle?

4. What does Jonathan notice about the weather on the way to the battle?

5. Where is the battle to take place?

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