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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 22.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who comes to confront Deerslayer?
(a) No one. He was held captive tied to a tree
(b) The tribal council
(c) The old woman he had grabbed
(d) Briarthorn, the warrior who had kidnapped Wah-ta-Wah

2. What are Harry and Hutter planning when they get to the Iroquois encampment?
(a) Carrying off two of their women
(b) Taking the chief hostage
(c) Enlisting them to help guard Muskrat Castle
(d) Taking Indian scalps

3. For what does Deerslayer prepare himself?
(a) Escaping
(b) Torture
(c) Going without food or water
(d) Fighting Briarthorn

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the purpose of the detailed description of the bedroom of Judith and Hetty in the novel?

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

3. What does Chingachgook want to do?

4. What do Judith and Hetty want to do now that Hutter is dead?

5. What new value does the old chest take on at that time?

(see the answer key)

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