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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Jonathan feel upon returning home?
2. What does the soldier do after the boy's parents are buried?
3. What explanation does the Corporal offer for the boy's refusal to speak?
4. What does the Corporal have Jonathan do for the men as they approach the house?
5. How long is it after Jonathan leaves the house at night that he sees a light?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
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. 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?
4. Why is it important to Jonathan to know whether the Hessians killed the boy's parents?
5. Why does Jonathan think he sees himself from the day before when he returns home?
6. Why is the task of milking the cow so comforting to Jonathan?
7. What does the Corporal's reaction to Jonathan and the boy's appearance at the campfire reveal about his character?
8. What is the significance of Jonathan choosing to find the Corporal instead of killing the sleeping Hessians?
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. What event causes Jonathan to reassess whether the Hessians are his friends or his enemies as he milks the cow?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the theme of idealism versus reality in the novel. At what points does Jonathan wrestle to resolve his conflicts between the two? How do these experiences ultimately shape his conclusions?
Essay Topic 2
How has the young child's experiences mirrored Jonathan's own experiences of war? In particular, how have they both been changed by the horrors they have seen? What does this have to do with Jonathan's decision to protect the child at any cost?
Essay Topic 3
Trace Jonathan's relationship to his borrowed rifle throughout the story. What does his relationship to this object symbolize about who he is at various points in the story? Specifically, what is the symbolism of his destroying it at the end?
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