Name ___________________
Modern World History
Mr. Kraft
American Revolution
The Patriot
Character Clarification:
Benjamin Martin – Mel Gibson
Gabriel Martin – Heath Ledger
Thomas Martin – Greg Smith
Aunt Charlotte – Joely Richardson
General Cornwallis – Tom Wilkinson
Colonel Tavington – Jason Isaacs
Colonel Harry Burwell – Chris Cooper
Captain Henry Wilkins – Adam Baldwin
Jean Villenruor (French Soldier) – Tacheky Karyo
Peter Howard – Joey Vieikra
Anne Howard – Lisa Brenner
Questions:
1. What is the year in which this movie begins?
2. In which of the 13 colonies does this movie take place?
3. What city do Benjamin Martin and his family go to?
4. Why do Benjamin Martin and his family go to this city?
5. Who are people hanging and burning in the town square of Charleston?
6. During the assembly, what does Benjamin Martin tell the entire assembly he is “not willing to trade”?
7. What does Benjamin Martin say he is angry about during the assembly?
8. What “levy” (tax) is being voted upon in the assembly?
9. What is Benjamin Martin’s vote on the levy?
10. Why does Benjamin Martin vote how he does?
11. What does Gabriel Martin do without the permission of his father Benjamin Martin?
12. Who is the General of the British Army that is in the south?
13. What major southern city is captured by General Cornwallis?
14. In Gabriel Martin’s letter to his family, what does he say the Continental Army’s campaign in the north has
been “marked by”?
15. What was Gabriel Martin carrying for the Continental Army when he comes back home?
16. Why does Colonel Tavington order Gabriel Martin to be arrested and then hanged?
17. What happens to Benjamin Martin’s house and slaves? Why?
18. What is the incentive that Colonel Tavington offers to American slaves “who fight for the British crown”?
19. What happens to the wounded Continental or “rebel” soldiers whom Benjamin Martin and his family are
caring for?
20. Besides his musket, what else does Benjamin Martin carry with him during battle?
21. When Benjamin Martin attacks the British soldiers who have arrested his son Gabriel, whom does Benjamin
Martin tell his sons to shoot first?
22. What warfare style does Benjamin Martin use when he attacks the British soldiers who have arrested
Gabriel?
23. What Army did Captain Wilkins fight for before joining the English Dragoons (cavalry)?
24. Why does Benjamin Martin end up joining the Continental Army?
25. Why does Benjamin Martin call General Gates of the Continental Army a fool?
26. Why does Benjamin Martin say General Gates of the Continental Army fights the foolish way he does?
27. According to General Burwell of the Continental Army, why must they keep General Cornwallis “occupied” in
the south?
28. What does General Burwell of the Continental Army say that the French Army promised to give the
Continental Army?
29. What is the reason for General Cornwallis reprimanding Colonel Tavington?
30. What colonial militia were Gabriel Martin and Benjamin Martin trying to build?
31. What is General Cornwallis’ opinion of the colonial militias?
32. What reason does Colonel Tavington give to General Cornwallis, for not being able to defeat Benjamin
Martin and his men?
33. What is the nickname given to Benjamin Martin and his men by Colonel Tavington?
34. What is the incentive for American slaves who fight for the Continental Army?
35. Who are the first targets of Benjamin Martin’s men at the beginning of each battle?
36. What is General Cornwallis’s opinion of Benjamin Martin’s “first target tactic”?
37. What is the reaction of General Cornwallis to Benjamin Martin’s deception during the prisoner exchange?
38. In what war did Benjamin’s Martin’s Fort Wilderness massacre take place?
39. What are the plans of General Cornwallis after the war is over?
40. What happens to Anne Howard (Gabriel’s wife) and her village? Why?
41. Who forms the center of the Continental Army’s formation in the Battle of Cowpens?
42. What is the name of the final battle of the war?
43. Why can’t the British retreat during the final battle?