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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 do the men at the campfire give Jonathan to eat?
2. What do the American soldiers do once Jonathan has shut himself inside the house?
3. What does the Corporal tell the men who ask what they're going to do with the Hessians?
4. What does Jonathan learn at the campfire about the boy's family?
5. What things does Jonathan discover in the house he and the Hessians find?
Short Essay Questions
1. When Jonathan starts to protest the Corporal's orders, explaining that the Hessians "didn't hurt me," what effect does the Corporal's response have on him?
2. Why is the task of milking the cow so comforting to Jonathan?
3. Why does Jonathan think he sees himself from the day before when he returns home?
4. Why is it important to Jonathan to know whether the Hessians killed the boy's parents?
5. How do the Hessians treat Jonathan when he is trying to save their lives?
6. 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?
7. What is the significance of Jonathan choosing to carry the boy and leave the gun in the house?
8. 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?
9. What event causes Jonathan to reassess whether the Hessians are his friends or his enemies as he milks the cow?
10. Why does Jonathan risk his life and the boy's by bringing the boy to the Hessians?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
Discuss the use of time-stamping throughout the book. What effect does it have on the reader to see events unfold more slowly or more quickly using this device?
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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