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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 suspect about the death of the boy's parents?
(a) That the boy accidentally killed them.
(b) That the Americans killed them.
(c) That the Hessians he's with killed them.
(d) That they committed suicide.

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

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

4. What do the American soldiers do once Jonathan has shut himself inside the house?
(a) Run away.
(b) Yell for him to come out.
(c) Run inside shooting.
(d) Begin shooting from outside.

5. What does Jonathan feel guilty about at the campfire?
(a) That he buried the boy's parents.
(b) That he ran away after the battle.
(c) That he wasn't wounded at the battle.
(d) That it took him so long to escape from the Hessians.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jonathan consider doing when all the Hessians are asleep in the house?

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

3. What is the attitude of the soldiers at the campfire toward Jonathan?

4. What type of house do Jonathan and the Hessians discover?

5. How does the soldier who helps Jonathan react to Jonathan's grave-digging?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what way does Jonathan begin to see the Corporal differently when the man wakes him up at the campfire?

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

3. According to the Corporal, how do the boy's dead parents fit into the story as a whole?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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