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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After the house is secure, what does Deerslayer agree to do?
(a) Take the watch all night long so the others can sleep.
(b) Go on a scalp hunting expedition with Harry and Hutter.
(c) Take Harry and Hutter ashore and return for them on Harry's signal.
(d) Sink all the Indian canoes they found around the lake.

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

3. Why is Hutter concerned at that time?
(a) The war between the Delaware and the Huron tribes
(b) The war between the French and the British and the Indians that are aligned with each of them
(c) The difficulty in finding clean water
(d) Pirates who have been seen on the lake

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

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

6. What does Deerslayer discover about Ravenoak's desires?
(a) That he wants to attack the British garrison.
(b) That he wants to take Judith.
(c) That he wants the rest of the treasure on the Ark.
(d) That he wants Deerslayer to help him defeat the British.

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

8. How does Chingachgook disguise himself on the boat?
(a) He shaves his head.
(b) He puts on a soldier uniform he found in the garrison.
(c) He puts on some of Hutter's old clothes.
(d) He dresses like an Iroquois.

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

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

11. What convinces Deerslayer that the chess pieces are not idols?
(a) They find the game board just as Judith had described it.
(b) They would not be locked in a trunk if they are idols.
(c) They are too small to be idols.
(d) There is no book of idolatry in the chest.

12. 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.

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

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

15. When Deerslayer realizes Harry and Hutter have been taken captive, what does he do?
(a) He goes ashore and heads for the garrison.
(b) He takes Hetty and goes to the encampment.
(c) He goes to sleep in his canoe.
(d) He wakes the girls and gives them guns.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Judith try to find out from Deerslayer?

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

3. What does Judith try to do?

4. Why do they move onto the Ark?

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

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