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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens when Deerslayer turns his back on the Iroquois?
(a) The Indian tries to kill him but Deerslayer gets the Iroquois instead.
(b) He hears the screams of Harry and Hutter coming from the camp.
(c) The Iroquois turns around and goes back empty handed.
(d) The Iroquois watches him closely to see that he does not return.

2. What happens when Deerslayer grabs the old woman?
(a) She screams and he is caught by the warriors.
(b) She clubs him with a large stick.
(c) She faints and falls, hitting her head.
(d) She wants to run away with him.

3. Why are the Iroquois in that area in the first place?
(a) They got lost looking for the French.
(b) They are looking for game to kill before winter.
(c) They are expecting to settle there.
(d) They are making their way north to join the French.

4. What does Deerslayer say to March when he impulsively shoots a deer just for sport?
(a) He should never fire a rifle from a canoe because it could tip over.
(b) He should be careful not to shoot a cow by mistake.
(c) It is wrong to kill an animal without intending to eat its meat or make something from its skin.
(d) He must remember the spot so they can collect the deer when they go back to shore.

5. When asked why they came there, what do Hutter and Harry admit?
(a) That they had heard the Iroquois had gold.
(b) That they were looking for Iroquois women to capture.
(c) That they came there for scalps.
(d) That they were spies for the soldiers in the garrison.

6. What unexpected thing does Hetty do before they realize it?
(a) She sets fire to the house.
(b) She tries to swim ashore and drowns.
(c) She takes a canoe and paddles to the lake shore.
(d) She takes an axe and chops open the old chest.

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

8. What do the fancy clothes and dueling pistols tell Judith?
(a) They are information she already knew about her parents.
(b) They are not things Hutter would have bought.
(c) They are probably stolen articles.
(d) They are what is left over from her mother's wedding.

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

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

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

12. After the bargaining is finished, what happens?
(a) Hutter and Harry are brought to the Ark and the exchange is made.
(b) Harry becomes ill with the smallpox.
(c) Ravenoak changes his mind and refuses to release the men.
(d) The entire Iroquois encampment comes to the edge of the lake.

13. What do they find out when they are trying to open the old chest?
(a) The key is in the pocket of one of Hetty's dresses.
(b) The key is hidden behind a loose stone in the fireplace.
(c) The key is pinned behind a photograph of Judith's mother.
(d) The key is nowhere to be found.

14. What problem does going to talk with the Iroquois pose for Deerslayer?
(a) He does not know how to make contact with the Iroquois.
(b) He is forced to admit that he had killed an Iroquois warrior.
(c) He thinks it will prevent Chingachgook from regaining his wife.
(d) He does not know the Iroquois language.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What strange thing do they find in the chest?

2. What complicates Wah-ta-Wah's rescue?

3. What does Chingachgook relate when he arrives?

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

5. How do the men finally manage to grab Wah-ta-Wah?

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