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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What helps Jonathan when he has trouble digging up the soil to bury the boy's parents?
(a) His determination to do the right thing.
(b) Thinking about the boy.
(c) Remembering his work on his father's fields.
(d) Wetting it down.

2. Where is the Corporal's clothing torn when he awakens Jonathan?
(a) In the shoulder.
(b) In the collar.
(c) In the knee.
(d) In the sleeve.

3. How does the soldier who helps Jonathan react to Jonathan's grave-digging?
(a) With compassion.
(b) With pity.
(c) With disgust.
(d) With praise.

4. What are the Hessians doing when Jonathan brings the boy to the house after finding his dead parents?
(a) Preparing for battle.
(b) Eating.
(c) Relaxing.
(d) Talking.

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

6. What does Jonathan do when he gets inside the house where the Hessians have been sleeping?
(a) Shoots at them.
(b) Tells them it's safe to come out.
(c) Ties them up.
(d) Warns them about the Americans outside.

7. What does the Corporal have Jonathan do for the men as they approach the house?
(a) Describe the Hessians.
(b) Come up with strategies.
(c) Describe the house.
(d) Give them assignments.

8. What does Jonathan do before leaving the house while the Hessians are asleep?
(a) He takes the boy.
(b) He takes their food.
(c) He steals a gun.
(d) He ties them up.

9. What does the old Hessian do to Jonathan in the house at night time?
(a) Ties Jonathan's ankle to his own.
(b) Ties Jonathan's ankle to a chair.
(c) Ties Jonathan's wrist to his own.
(d) Ties Jonathan's wrists.

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

11. What does Jonathan suspect about the Corporal at the campfire?
(a) That he followed Jonathan and the Hessians.
(b) That he has not actually earned the rank of Corporal.
(c) That he is insane.
(d) That he is actually an enemy soldier.

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

13. How long is it after Jonathan leaves the house at night that he sees a light?
(a) Two hours.
(b) One hour.
(c) One-half hour.
(d) Three hours.

14. What request does Jonathan make of the Corporal when he wakes up?
(a) To go home.
(b) To continue fighting.
(c) To be taught fighting techniques.
(d) To take the boy to find his brother.

15. What happens to the Hessians on the porch?
(a) They are wounded and taken prisoner.
(b) They are killed by the Americans.
(c) They shoot their way past the Americans.
(d) They are unscathed and taken prisoner.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Corporal tell the men who ask what they're going to do with the Hessians?

2. What do the men at the campfire give Jonathan to eat?

3. What does Jonathan feel upon returning home?

4. Who takes the small boy to his home?

5. What do the Hessians force Jonathan to do when they first find the house?

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