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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Judith do together with Deerslayer?
(a) Make plans to protect Hetty
(b) Go for a midnight swim
(c) Prepare a meal of freshly caught fish
(d) Examine the contents of the old chest

2. Why does Judith feel affection for Deerslayer?
(a) Because of his honesty and moral character
(b) Because he is so ruggedly handsome
(c) Because she believes she owes it to him
(d) Because she wants to use him to get away from Harry

3. What member of Deerslayer's group gets shot in the conflict between the Iroquois and the soldiers?
(a) Judith
(b) Harry
(c) Wah-ta-Wah
(d) Hetty

4. What does Harry advise Deerslayer to do?
(a) Kill himself to save the rest of them.
(b) Go with him to the garrison.
(c) Declare war on the Iroquois.
(d) Run while he has the chance.

5. What is rumored to have become of Judith?
(a) That she has commited suicide.
(b) That she is a spinster in the settlement.
(c) That she has finally married and moved to New York.
(d) That she leaves to be the mistress of Captain Warley.

6. What do they find in the old chest?
(a) Deeds to property that belonged to the girls' mother
(b) Their mother's diary
(c) Instructions for receiving a large inheritance
(d) Old letters that belonged to Judith's mother

7. What does Hetty try to do for Deerslayer?
(a) She reads Bible passages to the Iroquois.
(b) She runs to the garrison for help.
(c) She tries to intervene and is listened to politely but the torture continues.
(d) She stands in front of Deerslayer and dares them to shoot her.

8. Why do the Iroquois on the island not kill Harry and Hutter?
(a) They are on the island and do not know about the dead woman.
(b) They now think they are mentally afflicted like Hetty.
(c) They want to take them to get the rest of the treasure on the Ark.
(d) They want to make them suffer under torture.

9. How do they find Hutter when they enter the house?
(a) He is hanging upside down from the second floor.
(b) He is laughing at the stupid Indians.
(c) He is dying.
(d) He is unconscious.

10. Where do Chingachgook and Wah-ta-Wah see Harry the next morning?
(a) Floating face down in the lake
(b) Tied up on the platform in front of the castle
(c) Hanging from a tree on the island
(d) Sitting in the canoe with Judith and Hetty

11. What happens when Harry and Hutter enter Muskrat Castle that morning?
(a) They find Deerslayer there.
(b) The Iroquois are waiting in ambush and capture them.
(c) They kill an Iroquois boy who came there to play.
(d) They see that they were right about the castle being empty.

12. Why is it safe for Hetty to return with Deerslayer?
(a) The respect her for her innocence.
(b) They see her as a goddess.
(c) They fear her because of her mental condition.
(d) They will not harm her because of her mental condition.

13. What does chief Ravenoak want to do with Deerslayer?
(a) He wants to torture him.
(b) He wants to take his scalp.
(c) He wants to pardon him.
(d) He wants to keep him as a hostage.

14. What does Hutter do when he discovers that Deerslayer has been captured?
(a) He insists that they take the Ark to the other side of the lake.
(b) He hides behind the old chest.
(c) He fires his gun at someone on the shore and kills the warrior's lover.
(d) He gets in a canoe and races ashore to find Deerslayer.

15. How had the soldiers found the Iroquois encampment?
(a) Hetty finds them and leads them to the Iroquois.
(b) They hear the noise of the warriors enjoying the torture.
(c) On patrol, they run into Harry and he shows them the way.
(d) They come upon them by sheer accident.

Short Answer Questions

1. What gift does Judith give Deerslayer?

2. What strange thing takes place that Judith and Hetty do not understand as they paddle away in the canoe.

3. Who do they see paddling in a canoe and coming toward them out on the lake?

4. Why does Deerslayer reject Judith's final marriage proposal?

5. What challenge does Wah-ta-Wah deliver to Briarthorn, the man who had kidnapped her?

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