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

2. What is the Hessians' initial response when Jonathan asks for help burying the boy's parents?
(a) They throw him out of the house.
(b) They ignore him.
(c) They yell at him.
(d) They tie him up.

3. What is the small boy's appearance when Jonathan finds him?
(a) He is dirty.
(b) He is malnourished.
(c) He is wounded.
(d) He is naked.

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

5. How does the soldier who helps Jonathan react to Jonathan's grave-digging?
(a) With disgust.
(b) With praise.
(c) With pity.
(d) With compassion.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long is it after Jonathan leaves the house at night that he sees a light?

2. How were the boy's parents buried?

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

4. What does Jonathan feel upon returning home?

5. What does the old Hessian do to Jonathan in the house at night time?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

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

5. 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?

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

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

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

9. 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?

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

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