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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. How does the soldier who helps Jonathan react to Jonathan's grave-digging?
2. What does Jonathan do when he gets inside the house where the Hessians have been sleeping?
3. What are the Corporal's orders to Jonathan as they approach the house?
4. How do the Hessians react to the discovery of the boy's dead parents?
5. How does Jonathan begin to find his way once he has left the house?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. Why is the Corporal being kind to Jonathan after he wakes him up?
3. What event causes Jonathan to reassess whether the Hessians are his friends or his enemies as he milks the cow?
4. 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?
5. Why does Jonathan feel a sense of comaraderie with his enemy captor, just because he winks at him?
6. In what way does Jonathan begin to see the Corporal differently when the man wakes him up at the campfire?
7. Why is it important to Jonathan to know whether the Hessians killed the boy's parents?
8. In what way does untying himself from the sleeping Hessian represent a change in 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. How do the reactions of the men differ from those of the Corporal when Jonathan appears at the campfire?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Why does Jonathan choose to untie himself and escape from the Hessians, whom he has begun to trust, when he has no idea where else to go or what will become of him if he leaves? In what way does this action represent a departure from his earlier self?
Essay Topic 2
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?
Essay Topic 3
What is the author's view of war? How does he use the murder of the child's parents to advance this view? What does the Corporal symbolize in regard to the author's view of war?
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