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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jonathan wonder about as he and the Hessians rest?
(a) How he can communicate with the Hessians.
(b) Whether he can make the Hessians his allies.
(c) Whether other Hessians in the battle had taken prisoners.
(d) Why he went to battle in the first place.

2. What do the soldiers accuse the Corporal of after asking him about the men from Snydertown?
(a) Being a traitor.
(b) Being a liar.
(c) Being overly cautious.
(d) Being overly fond of killing.

3. What does Jonathan wonder when he and the Hessians pass the dark stain on the road?
(a) What happened to the dead bodies from the battle.
(b) Why he ever volunteered to take part in battle.
(c) Whether it's the same blood as the blood on him.
(d) Whether the blood was American or Hessian.

4. What signals the soldier that the enemy is on their way?
(a) Trumpets.
(b) A battle call.
(c) A fife and drum.
(d) A bell tolling.

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

6. What idea of the Corporal's for facing the enemy is met with resistance?
(a) Lining up.
(b) Charging.
(c) Hiding behind rocks and bushes.
(d) Scattering.

7. Who are the Hessians?
(a) The German-speaking enemy soldiers.
(b) The Tories.
(c) The Americans' allies.
(d) The British.

8. Who holds Pennington and Trenton at the beginning of the story?
(a) The French.
(b) The British and the Hessians.
(c) The Tories.
(d) The Americans.

9. What order does the Corporal give as the enemy approaches that Jonathan is afraid he won't be able to follow?
(a) Aiming low.
(b) Being among the first to fire.
(c) Firing two rounds a minute.
(d) Shooting to kill.

10. What strikes Jonathan about the first Hessian he sees when he is alone after the battle?
(a) He seems old and feeble.
(b) He seems young and inexperienced.
(c) He seems short and weak.
(d) He seems tall and powerful.

11. What does Jonathan wonder as he and the Hessians follow the sound they hear?
(a) Whether the Hessians will kill him.
(b) Whether they will be killed by a wild animal.
(c) Whether he is more afraid of the Hessians or the Americans.
(d) Whether they will find food.

12. Why does the Corporal get angry when a soldier in Rocktown fires a shot into the air?
(a) The Corporal doesn't want to frighten the woman.
(b) He's afraid they'll give away their location.
(c) The soldier used the Corporal's gun.
(d) The soldier is wasting ammunition.

13. What does Jonathan think about the town being called Rocktown?
(a) He wonders if the rocks have been recently cleared away.
(b) He's surprised that he sees no rocks.
(c) It makes sense because of all the rocks he sees.
(d) He sees a quarry which would account for the name.

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

15. What does Jonathan think would make him feel better while he and the Hessians are resting?
(a) If all the other Hessians had been killed.
(b) If all the soldiers on his side had gotten away from the Hessians.
(c) If the soldiers on his side had taken Hessians prisoner.
(d) If other soldiers on his side had also been taken prisoner.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the New Jersey soldier uniforms look like?

2. How does the Corporal suggest they approach the battle?

3. Why does Jonathan decide not to ask any more questions about the battle after talking to his father's friend?

4. What does Jonathan hear when the Hessians wake him up from his rest?

5. How does Jonathan's father's friend respond to Jonathan's questions on the way to the battle?

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