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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do they use to bargain for the lives of Hutter and Harry?
(a) Three deer Chingachgook had killed
(b) The dueling pistols
(c) The fancy clothes
(d) The chess pieces

2. What does Judith tell Deerslayer about the chess pieces?
(a) That they are part of a game she had seen the soldiers play at the garrison.
(b) That they are decoations for a whatnot stand.
(c) That they are forms of money in India.
(d) That they are toys for small children.

3. What is Deerslayer's problem that makes him uncomfortable around Judith?
(a) Her reputation for being morally lax
(b) Her education which makes him feel inferior
(c) Her great beauty
(d) Her disinterest in him

4. What shows the strong character of Deerslayer in the opening of the novel?
(a) His promise to go to the authorities if anything were to happen to any man who marries Judith.
(b) His refusal to take part in any war
(c) His insistance on having the land surveyed
(d) His willingness to compromise for a friend

5. When Chingachgook arrives, why do Judith and Hetty not understand their conversation?
(a) They speak in the Delaware language.
(b) They talk too softly for the girls to hear.
(c) They speak only in sign language.
(d) They speak French.

6. What complicates Wah-ta-Wah's rescue?
(a) They cannot get close enough without being seen.
(b) Wah-ta-Wah has been tied to a tree in the middle of the camp.
(c) She is under guard and there are two warriors watching the camp.
(d) She does not see Chingachgook when he signals to her.

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

8. Prior to Hutter and Harry going to the encampment, what does Deerslayer do?
(a) He shows them how to slip up on the camp.
(b) He urges them to go without their muskets.
(c) He warns them that what they are planning is wrong.
(d) He gives them new mossasins to wear.

9. What is the purpose of the detailed description of the bedroom of Judith and Hetty in the novel?
(a) It shows how wealthy Thomas Hutter is and how spoiled the girls are.
(b) It foreshadows the death of Hetty and Judith.
(c) It serves to anticipate the characters of the two girls before they are actually introduced.
(d) It proves that the Hutter family seldom comes to Muskrat Castle.

10. What do they find when they get to the Iroquois encampment?
(a) It is on fire.
(b) They are having a war dance.
(c) The soldiers are there.
(d) It is gone.

11. How do the Iroquois discover Hetty's mental capacity?
(a) Hutter tells them his daughter is afflicted.
(b) They see that she is not afraid of them.
(c) They already know because they had heard the tales.
(d) Wah-ta-Wah explains it to them.

12. How do the men finally manage to grab Wah-ta-Wah?
(a) When everyone falls asleep.
(b) When she and an old lady go to collect water from the lake.
(c) When Wah-ta-Wah makes a run for her freedom.
(d) When it gets very dark.

13. Why is Chingachgook coming to that area?
(a) He is looking for his wife who was abducted by Briarthorn.
(b) He is planning to start a settlement there.
(c) He is coming to hunt moose.
(d) He wants to catch the huge fish that are in the lake.

14. As Hetty wanders in the forest looking for the Iroquois, who finds her?
(a) The captain of the garrison
(b) Judith
(c) A small Iroquois boy
(d) Wa-ta-Wah, Chingachgook's wife

15. Instead of Harry's prearranged signal, what does Deerslayer hear?
(a) War drums
(b) A woman scream
(c) Nothing
(d) The cry of a wounded moose

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Judith's suggestion about securing the release of Hutter and Harry?

2. What is the argument between Harry Marsh and Deerslayer?

3. When asked why they came there, what do Hutter and Harry admit?

4. Deerslayer fears that Harry and Hutter are up to ____________.

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

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