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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When they find the Hutter family, Harry is interested in Judith. In what is Deerslayer interested?
(a) Where they got the idea for the Ark
(b) The reason they are hiding on the boat
(c) The construction of the Ark
(d) How the boat is propelled

2. Why does Deerslayer not raise his rifle against the Iroquois who shot at him?
(a) He is too far away.
(b) There are women and children standing behind the Iroquois.
(c) He sees Hutter slipping up behind the Iroquois.
(d) He does not want to take a human life.

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

4. The men who emerge from the woods in the opening of the novel.
(a) Briarthorn and Natty Bumppo
(b) Hurry Harry March and Deerslayer
(c) Chingachgook and Thomas Hutter
(d) Soldiers headed for the garrison

5. Who is Deerslayer expecting to meet near the lake?
(a) Hurry Harry March
(b) Chingachgook
(c) Garrison soldiers
(d) Wah-ta-Wah

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Hutter concerned at that time?

2. What does Deerslayer have to tell Judith and Hetty?

3. What does Deerslayer say to March when he impulsively shoots a deer just for sport?

4. Why Deerslayer is more interested in Hetty than in Judith.

5. What has Hutter found and shows to March and Deerslayer?

(see the answer key)

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