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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 116 through 128.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What helps Jonathan when he has trouble digging up the soil to bury the boy's parents?
(a) Thinking about the boy.
(b) His determination to do the right thing.
(c) Wetting it down.
(d) Remembering his work on his father's fields.

2. What does Jonathan do when the young Hessian stops to look at something on the road?
(a) He almost loses his footing.
(b) He slips and falls in the mud.
(c) He tries to communicate with the Hessians.
(d) He escapes.

3. What does Jonathan suspect about the death of the boy's parents?
(a) That they committed suicide.
(b) That the Hessians he's with killed them.
(c) That the Americans killed them.
(d) That the boy accidentally killed them.

4. What does the Corporal reveal about the boy's parents' deaths?
(a) They were killed in the crossfire of a battle.
(b) He killed them.
(c) The Hessians killed them.
(d) The Tories killed them.

5. What happens when the Corporal invites the men to replace him?
(a) They remain silent.
(b) They decide not to have any leader.
(c) They argue.
(d) They put it to a vote.

Short Answer Questions

1. What strikes Jonathan about the second Hessian he sees when he is alone after the battle?

2. How does the Corporal try to organize the men in Rocktown as the enemy approaches?

3. Who holds Alexandria, Fleming and Well's Ferry at the beginning of the story?

4. Where is the battle to take place?

5. Who are the British in the story?

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