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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. How does the Corporal suggest they approach the battle?
(a) Ambushing the enemy from the trees.
(b) Hiding out behind rocks and bushes.
(c) Ambushing the enemy from a high cliff.
(d) Waiting until dark to surprise the enemy.

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

3. What does Jonathan want to be at the beginning of the story?
(a) A corporal.
(b) A soldier.
(c) A tavern keeper.
(d) A farmer.

4. What does Jonathan suspect about the parents of the boy who was killed in the war?
(a) That they are British.
(b) That they are Tories.
(c) That they are French.
(d) That they are Hessians.

5. What happened to Jonathan's father in the war?
(a) He was wounded in the foot.
(b) He was wounded in the arm.
(c) He was wounded in the shoulder.
(d) He was wounded in the leg.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who holds Pennington and Trenton at the beginning of the story?

2. What promise does Jonathan make to the tavern keeper?

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

4. Who is the stranger who gathers the soldiers?

5. What does the stranger tell Jonathan to do?

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