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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 the soldier do after the boy's parents are buried?
2. How do the Hessians react to the Corporal's shouts?
3. What do the Hessians force Jonathan to do when they first find the house?
4. What challenge does Jonathan face when he leaves the house at night?
5. What does Jonathan do before leaving the house while the Hessians are asleep?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. How do the Hessians treat Jonathan when he is trying to save their lives?
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. In what way does untying himself from the sleeping Hessian represent a change in Jonathan?
5. What does the Corporal's reaction to Jonathan and the boy's appearance at the campfire reveal about his character?
6. 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?
7. Why does Jonathan feel a sense of comaraderie with his enemy captor, just because he winks at him?
8. 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?
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
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
Why does the author present the youngest Hessian as being so much more decent than the other two? What does this reveal about the author's vision of youth, and how does it relate to Jonathan's youth?
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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