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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What useful items do they find in the chest?
(a) A tomahawk
(b) A rifle and some ammunition
(c) A set of dueling pistols
(d) Several scalps Hutter has collected

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

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

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

5. After Hetty falls asleep in the forest, what does she discover when she wakes up?
(a) A family of brown bears
(b) Deerslayer and Chingachgook who finally located her
(c) A cloth filled with food
(d) It is raining hard

6. What plans do Chingachgook and Deerslayer make together?
(a) To go hunting for deer meat they can cook on the Ark
(b) To hide Hutter's guns so he cannot make more trouble with the Iroquois
(c) To find out where the Iroquois warriors have gone
(d) To go rescue Wah-ta-Wah

7. When the Iroquois dies, what does Deerslayer refuse to do?
(a) Throw his body into the lake
(b) Take his scalp
(c) Take his rifle
(d) Row back to the island

8. What possibility causes Hutter a great deal of anxiety?
(a) That Judith might run away with a soldier from the garrison.
(b) That Hetty would be taken by one of the Iroquois braves.
(c) That Judith might open the old chest to find some ransom for them.
(d) That the Iroquois might storm the island and kill Judith.

9. What is Judith's suggestion about securing the release of Hutter and Harry?
(a) Leave the island and find the garrison
(b) Set the Ark adrift and then slip away in canoes
(c) Gather items they might use to trade for their freedom
(d) Run away and leave her father to his fate

10. What are the warriors discussing when Deerslayer and Chingachgook approach the camp?
(a) Why they are upset at being left with the women.
(b) The elephant chess pieces
(c) How they plan to surprise the British.
(d) Where they can find deer to kill.

11. What disturbs Deerslayer about the chess pieces they find in the chest?
(a) He does not understand how many there are supposed to be.
(b) He thinks they might be idols for strange worship.
(c) He thinks Hutter had stolen them because they are ivory.
(d) He cannot imagine what the elephants are.

12. What is the double activity going on as Hetty enters the encampment?
(a) The torture of Harry and Hutter and the suffering of Deerslayer and Chingachgook.
(b) Preparations for war in the encampment and in the garrison.
(c) The breakfast in the encampment and the one on the island.
(d) There are two searches going on--one for Hetty and Hetty's search for her father.

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

14. Who interrogates Deerslayer?
(a) Briarthorn
(b) Chief Ravenoak
(c) The old woman he grabbed
(d) The tribal council

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who shows up in the Iroquois camp to plead for Deerslayer's life?

2. What do they find when they get to the Iroquois encampment?

3. Why does the woman take Hetty into the Iroquois encampment?

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

5. What comparisons do they discuss regarding physical beauty?

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