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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. How is Jonathan feeling as he begins to carry out the Corporal's orders at the house?
(a) Sad.
(b) Brave.
(c) Uncertain.
(d) Proud.

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

3. What is in the box that the boy points out to Jonathan in the house?
(a) A sack and a blanket.
(b) Money.
(c) A toy.
(d) A gun.

4. How do the Hessians react to the discovery of the boy's dead parents?
(a) They try to pull the boy away from the scene.
(b) With sympathy and compassion.
(c) With annoyance and impatience.
(d) They look more closely.

5. What does the Corporal yell to the Hessians from outside the house?
(a) Stay inside and we'll let you live!
(b) Send Jonathan out and no one will be hurt!
(c) Surrender!
(d) Come out or we'll shoot!

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to the Hessians on the porch?

2. What does Jonathan feel upon returning home?

3. What food do the Hessians find in the house they discover?

4. What does the soldier do after the boy's parents are buried?

5. What information surprises Jonathan at the campfire?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Jonathan risk his life and the boy's by bringing the boy to the Hessians?

2. How do the reactions of the men differ from those of the Corporal when Jonathan appears at the campfire?

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

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

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

6. What is the significance of Jonathan's telling the Corporal that he wants to go home, and the Corporal telling him that he's needed?

7. Why does Jonathan feel a sense of comaraderie with his enemy captor, just because he winks at him?

8. What connection does Jonathan make between the death of his father's friend in battle and the death of the boy's parents at the hands of the Corporal?

9. By using a language that the Hessians do not understand, does the Corporal really give them a chance to save their lives when he tells them to surrender?

10. Why does the young Hessian recite a prayer over the grave of two Americans?

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