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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jonathan find interesting about the Corporal's yelling at the Hessians?
(a) The Corporal is trying to save his life.
(b) The Corporal knows they don't speak English.
(c) The Corporal is talking instead of shooting.
(d) The Corporal is not trying to save his life.

2. What information surprises Jonathan at the campfire?
(a) That the Hessians beat the Americans in the battle.
(b) That most of the Americans were taken prisoner.
(c) That the Americans beat the Hessians in the battle.
(d) That none of the other Americans were taken prisoner.

3. What does the Corporal tell the men who ask what they're going to do with the Hessians?
(a) They're going to kill them.
(b) They're going to take them prisoner.
(c) They're going to let them go free.
(d) He doesn't say.

4. What does Jonathan decide to do while the Hessians are asleep in the house?
(a) Return home.
(b) Find the Corporal.
(c) Steal from them.
(d) Kill them.

5. How is Jonathan feeling as he begins to carry out the Corporal's orders at the house?
(a) Proud.
(b) Uncertain.
(c) Sad.
(d) Brave.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Corporal reveal about the boy's dead parents?

2. What happens to the Hessians on the porch?

3. What request does Jonathan make of the Corporal when he wakes up?

4. What does Jonathan do when he gets inside the house where the Hessians have been sleeping?

5. What does Jonathan feel upon returning home?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the Hessians treat Jonathan when he is trying to save their lives?

2. Why does Jonathan feel a sense of comaraderie with his enemy captor, just because he winks at him?

3. What is the significance of Jonathan choosing to carry the boy and leave the gun in the house?

4. What connection does Jonathan make between the death of his father's friend in battle and the death of the boy's parents at the hands of the Corporal?

5. How do the reactions of the men differ from those of the Corporal when Jonathan appears at the campfire?

6. In what way does untying himself from the sleeping Hessian represent a change in Jonathan?

7. What is the significance of Jonathan's telling the Corporal that he wants to go home, and the Corporal telling him that he's needed?

8. Why does Jonathan have confusing reactions to the men's assessment at the campfire of the result of the battle?

9. Why does the young Hessian recite a prayer over the grave of two Americans?

10. According to the Corporal, how do the boy's dead parents fit into the story as a whole?

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