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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 Jonathan feel upon returning home?
(a) Proud of his achievements.
(b) Ashamed of his performance.
(c) Glad to be alive.
(d) Ashamed of disobeying his parents.

2. What does Jonathan understand about the cow near the house he and the Hessians discover?
(a) It needs to be millked.
(b) It is hungry.
(c) It has recently been milked.
(d) It is dying.

3. What happens to the Hessians on the porch?
(a) They are wounded and taken prisoner.
(b) They shoot their way past the Americans.
(c) They are killed by the Americans.
(d) They are unscathed and taken prisoner.

4. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Corporal reveal about the boy's parents' deaths?

2. What does the man who greets Jonathan at the campfire want to know?

3. What does the Corporal have Jonathan do for the men as they approach the house?

4. What are the Corporal's orders to Jonathan as they approach the house?

5. How does the boy respond the first time Jonathan asks about his parents?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

4. 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?

5. What is the significance of Jonathan choosing to find the Corporal instead of killing the sleeping Hessians?

6. What does the Corporal's reaction to Jonathan and the boy's appearance at the campfire reveal about his character?

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

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

9. Why is the Corporal being kind to Jonathan after he wakes him up?

10. Why does Jonathan have confusing reactions to the men's assessment at the campfire of the result of the battle?

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