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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 are the garrison soldiers able to do?

2. What gives Chingachgook the idea that the Iroquois have taken over Muskrat Castle during the night?

3. Why is it safe for Hetty to return with Deerslayer?

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

5. What does this situation foreshadow for Deerslayer?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the first torture they use with Deerslayer and how does he react?

2. After the massacre of the Iroquois, what happens?

3. Why is Hetty allowed to take Deerslayer back to the Indians?

4. What do Deerslayer and Judith find in the old chest?

5. What brings the entire tribe to want him tortured and killed?

6. What are the terms the Iroquois give Deerslayer to offer the people on the Ark?

7. How does Deerslayer almost escape the Iroquois?

8. What unfortunate event causes the woman on the shore to scream?

9. What happens when they return and enter Muskrat Castle?

10. What do the girls learn from Hutter as he speaks to them from his deathbed?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write a recommendation for other people to read The Deerslayer Your recommendation may be based on how interesting you found the book or on the idea of its historical significance as written by the first great American novelist.

Essay Topic 2

Write your opinion about deer hunting today and if you think it was different 300 years ago. If you have no experience in deer hunting, interview someone in your family or a family friend who can tell you about deer hunting today and how it might be different from the time of the Deerslayer.

Essay Topic 3

Do some research in the library or on the Internet and write a description of the wilderness in the American frontier in the late 1700's. Are the events and characters portrayed in the story realistic? Why or why not?

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