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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 the Corporal reveal about the boy's dead parents?
(a) They were innocent civilians.
(b) They were not really his parents.
(c) They were Tories.
(d) They were Hessians.

2. What is the attitude of the soldiers at the campfire toward Jonathan?
(a) That he was a coward.
(b) That he acted with utmost bravery.
(c) That he has nothing to be ashamed of.
(d) That he should not be permitted to carry a gun.

3. How many people does Jonathan see around the campfire?
(a) Three.
(b) Six.
(c) Four.
(d) Eight.

4. What does Jonathan do when he gets inside the house where the Hessians have been sleeping?
(a) Tells them it's safe to come out.
(b) Shoots at them.
(c) Warns them about the Americans outside.
(d) Ties them up.

5. What do the men at the campfire give Jonathan to eat?
(a) Soup.
(b) Johnnycake.
(c) Mush.
(d) Beans.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jonathan tell the Hessians to do in response to the Corporal's shouts?

2. How were the boy's parents buried?

3. How do the Hessians react to the Corporal's shouts?

4. What is Jonathan's notion about the inhabitants of the house he and the Hessians find?

5. How does Jonathan begin to find his way once he has left the house?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Jonathan think he sees himself from the day before when he returns home?

2. Why is the task of milking the cow so comforting to Jonathan?

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

4. What is the significance of Jonathan smashing the borrowed gun to pieces in a fit of rage?

5. Why does the young Hessian insist on digging the grave on his own?

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

7. When one of the soldiers urges Jonathan toward the house where the Hessians are sleeping, reassuring him that nothing will happen to him, what does this reveal about how Jonathan's experience has made him different from the other men?

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

9. Why is it important to Jonathan to know whether the Hessians killed the boy's parents?

10. What event causes Jonathan to reassess whether the Hessians are his friends or his enemies as he milks the cow?

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