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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Hetty's simple religious principles bring out what characteristic in her father and Harry?
(a) Their lack of education
(b) Their religious hypocracy
(c) Their real understanding of cultures
(d) Their open-mindedness

2. Who appears on the shore and prepares to attack the people on the Ark?
(a) Native Indians who fight for the French
(b) Members of the Delaware tribe
(c) A group of renegade settlers
(d) A French brigade

3. Where do March and Deerslayer finally find the Hutters?
(a) In the Delaware village
(b) On their boat called the Ark
(c) Just arriving back from Philadelphia
(d) Visiting with the Iroquois

4. What comparisons do they discuss regarding physical beauty?
(a) Hutter's daughters versus Native Indian women
(b) British women versus French women
(c) Handsome Harry versus Natty Bumppo and Judith versus Hetty
(d) Hutter and Harry versus Native Indian warriors

5. 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 find all the canoes hidden along the lake shore and take them to the middle of the lake.
(c) They establish a watch throughout the night.
(d) They send a carrier pidgeon to the garrison.

Short Answer Questions

1. What shows the strong character of Deerslayer in the opening of the novel?

2. What is Deerslayer's problem that makes him uncomfortable around Judith?

3. When they find the Hutter family, Harry is interested in Judith. In what is Deerslayer interested?

4. What are Harry and Hutter planning when they get to the Iroquois encampment?

5. What happens when Deerslayer turns his back on the Iroquois?

(see the answer key)

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