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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Judith try to do?
(a) Dress as a boy and go with Deerslayer and Chingachgook.
(b) Prevent Deerslayer from going with Chingachgook.
(c) Keep Hutter and Harry entertained while Deerslayer and Chingachgook slip away.
(d) Get Hetty to open the chest again.

2. What was the reaction of the Iroquois about Hutter and Harry wanting scalps?
(a) They do not believe white men would come for scalps.
(b) Recognizing the importance of scalps, they are not angered.
(c) They think the men were crazy.
(d) They discuss taking Hetty's scalp to teach them a lesson.

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

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

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

6. What conversation passes between Deerslayer and the Iroquois?
(a) That he will bring the white women to him.
(b) That the garrison is sending soldiers and the Iroquois are in danger.
(c) How Deerslayer does not want to fight and thinks they should be friends.
(d) That he lives with the Delaware.

7. What is in the old chest that is mentioned for the first time?
(a) It contains Spanish coins that Hutter has been hoarding.
(b) No one knows except Julia's and Hetty's father.
(c) It is full of priceless books.
(d) It contains a priceless treasure map.

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

9. What does Hetty reveal to Chingachgook?
(a) That Wah-ta-Wah is no longer in the Iroquois camp
(b) Wah-ta-Wah's plan for her escape and rescue
(c) That Wah-ta-Wah has commited suicide
(d) That Wah-ta-Wah no longer wants to be rescued

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

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

12. What does Judith find inside the chest?
(a) A diary written by a late aunt
(b) A beautiful dress that belonged to her mother
(c) A Bible with the family tree written in it
(d) A book of family recipes

13. 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 construction of the Ark
(c) How the boat is propelled
(d) The reason they are hiding on the boat

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

15. 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 spies for the soldiers in the garrison.
(c) That they came there for scalps.
(d) That they were looking for Iroquois women to capture.

Short Answer Questions

1. What problem does going to talk with the Iroquois pose for Deerslayer?

2. What creates a problem for meeting Wah-ta-Wah at the place she tells Hetty for them to find her?

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

4. Prior to Hutter and Harry going to the encampment, what does Deerslayer do?

5. What foolish thing does Hutter attempt to do before he is stopped by Deerslayer?

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