1. What does Hetty do to try and win the release of her father and Harry?
(a) She lies down on the ground and begins to cry.
(b) She reads Bible passages to them.
(c) She tells them where they can find the French.
(d) She offers to marry the chief.

2. What does the dying Iroquois say to Deerslayer?
(a) That he must not marry his widow.
(b) That he should be called Hawkeye.
(c) That he speaks with forked tongue.
(d) That he should learn how to shoot better.

3. What possibility causes Hutter a great deal of anxiety?
(a) That Hetty would be taken by one of the Iroquois braves.
(b) That Judith might run away with a soldier from the garrison.
(c) That Judith might open the old chest to find some ransom for them.
(d) That the Iroquois might storm the island and kill Judith.

4. How do Hutter, March, and Deerslayer secure Muskrat Castle on the island in the middle of the lake?
(a) They build a circle of fire around the house.
(b) They send a carrier pidgeon to the garrison.
(c) They find all the canoes hidden along the lake shore and take them to the middle of the lake.
(d) They establish a watch throughout the night.

5. What conversation passes between Deerslayer and the Iroquois?
(a) That he lives with the Delaware.
(b) How Deerslayer does not want to fight and thinks they should be friends.
(c) That he will bring the white women to him.
(d) That the garrison is sending soldiers and the Iroquois are in danger.