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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 stories has Jonathan heard about what Hessians do to prisoners?
(a) Torture and beheading.
(b) Death by starvation.
(c) Death by firing squad.
(d) Hanging, jailing and enslavement.

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

3. How does Jonathan's father's friend respond to Jonathan's questions on the way to the battle?
(a) He tells Jonathan it's better if he doesn't know the details.
(b) He fills Jonathan in on the details of the battle.
(c) He asks Jonathan whether he has his father's permission to fight.
(d) He refuses to speak to Jonathan.

4. At what point does the Corporal tell the men they should start shooting the Hessians?
(a) As soon as they are in visual range.
(b) When they are ten yards apart.
(c) When they are fifty yards apart.
(d) As soon as the Hessians start shooting them.

5. What does Jonathan feel guilty about at the campfire?
(a) That he buried the boy's parents.
(b) That he wasn't wounded at the battle.
(c) That he ran away after the battle.
(d) That it took him so long to escape from the Hessians.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the attitude of the soldiers at the campfire toward Jonathan?

2. What do the men at the campfire give Jonathan to eat?

3. How do the men react to the Corporal at the campfire?

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

5. What does Jonathan have trouble doing as the enemy approaches in Rocktown?

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