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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 90 through 102.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why don't the soldiers trust the Corporal on the way to the battle?
(a) He keeps changing the number of men they'll be fighting.
(b) He's leading them in the wrong direction.
(c) He keeps stopping to nap.
(d) He is drunk.

2. What does Jonathan realize as the enemy officers get closer?
(a) That he's incapable of killing.
(b) That the Tories are just as bad as the Hessians.
(c) That the enemy soldiers are just like the Americans.
(d) That he has never seen an enemy soldier before.

3. What does the youngest Hessian look like?
(a) He has bright, rosy cheeks.
(b) He is pale and sallow.
(c) He is tan.
(d) He is dark-skinned.

4. What happens to the Corporal when, after organizing the men to face the enemy, he first tries to get back on his horse?
(a) He sat silently on the horse.
(b) He fell to the ground.
(c) He rode away.
(d) The men pushed him off.

5. How are the enemy soldiers arranged as they approach Rocktown?
(a) Three by three.
(b) Two by two.
(c) Single file.
(d) Four by four.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is in the box that the boy points out to Jonathan in the house?

2. What are the Hessians wearing as they approach the Americans?

3. Who holds Pennington and Trenton at the beginning of the story?

4. What are the Hessians doing when Jonathan brings the boy to the house after finding his dead parents?

5. How do the enemy soldiers appear to Jonathan as they approach?

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