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

2. What food do the Hessians find in the house they discover?
(a) A basket of eggs.
(b) A tin of beans.
(c) Half a loaf of bread.
(d) A wedge of cheese.

3. What do the American soldiers discuss immediately following the battle with the Hessians at the house?
(a) How inept the Hessians were.
(b) How brave Jonathan was.
(c) How foolish Jonathan was.
(d) Nothing.

4. When does the Corporal want the soldiers to arrive at the house where the Hessians are?
(a) At midnight.
(b) At dawn.
(c) At high noon.
(d) At nightfall.

5. Who is the first person to greet Jonathan at the campfire?
(a) A soldier he doesn't recognize.
(b) The Corporal.
(c) His father's friend.
(d) The Frenchman.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jonathan decide to do while the Hessians are asleep in the house?

2. What do the men at the campfire give Jonathan to eat?

3. What information surprises Jonathan at the campfire?

4. What helps Jonathan when he has trouble digging up the soil to bury the boy's parents?

5. What is the small boy's appearance when Jonathan finds him?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. 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?

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