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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What can Hetty not understand as Deerslayer tries to talk with her on the way back?
(a) About Indian customs.
(b) About the need for guns.
(c) About how Hutter was wrong.
(d) About Judith and Harry.

2. Why is Deerslayer free?
(a) He slips away from the Iroquois in the night.
(b) Ravenoak gives him twenty-four hours furlough on his promise to return and face punishment.
(c) Chingachgook arranges for his release.
(d) He pretends to be sick and the Indians scare him.

3. What is the Indian equivalent of Heaven according to their discussion that morning?
(a) The cloud land
(b) Nirvana
(c) The Great Spirit Home
(d) The happy hunting ground

4. What does this situation foreshadow for Deerslayer?
(a) A deliverance by the Delaware tribe
(b) Another chance to make his escape
(c) Serious punishment when he returns empty handed
(d) Marriage proposals from both Judith and the Iroquois tribe

5. What do Chingachgook and Wah-ta-Wah do the next morning?
(a) The use the spyglass to survey the lake.
(b) They cook fish they caught in the lake.
(c) They plan how to take a canoe and desert the white people.
(d) They question Judith and Hetty for any information they might have.

6. What amazing feat does Deerslayer do that gives him a chance to run for his life?
(a) He pulls a knife from his belt and kills Ravenoak.
(b) He sees no opening to run for the lake before they know what he is doing.
(c) He takes Ravenoak hostage and stages a getaway.
(d) He catches the tomahawk and throws it back, killing the Iroquois who threw it at him.

7. What happened to most of the Iroquois?
(a) Most of them run away to hide in the forest.
(b) Most of them surrender to the soldiers.
(c) Most of them are killed by the soldiers.
(d) Most of them jump into canoes and paddle to the island.

8. What happens to prevent the torture by fire?
(a) Chingachgook arrives dressed as an Iroquois.
(b) Wah-ta-Wah arrives with a knife to cut Deerslayer free.
(c) Judith shoots Ravenoak with one of the dueling pistols.
(d) Hetty falls down and has a seizure.

9. What changes Harry's attitude about taking scalps?
(a) The narrow escape he had from getting his own scalp taken
(b) Seeing Hutter dying with his scalp taken
(c) The sorrow of the Hutter girls
(d) The reproach of Wah-ta-Wah

10. Where is Hetty during Deerslayer's escape and recapture?
(a) She is wandering around in the area of the camp.
(b) She gets lost in the forest.
(c) She finds a canoe and goes back to the castle.
(d) She is being chased by an Iroquois boy.

11. Where does Hetty go in the middle of the night?
(a) To the top of a nearby hill
(b) To the lake for a drink of water
(c) To the tree where Deerslayer is tied up
(d) To where Judith is waiting for her in the canoe

12. Who is the leader of the soldiers that defeat the Iroquois?
(a) Judith's and Hetty's long lost brother
(b) Captain Warley
(c) Harry
(d) A Delaware scout

13. How do they find Muskrat Castle?
(a) Divided up into classrooms for a boy's school
(b) Deserted as though no one had lived there
(c) Fallen to the ground
(d) Just like they remembered it

14. As he leaves, instead of telling Judith he loves her, what does Deerslayer say to her?
(a) How much he wants her to marry Harry
(b) How she must not end up like her mother
(c) How much he admires her
(d) How he never believed the rumors about her

15. What does Judith urge him to do?
(a) Get away where the Iroquois cannot find him
(b) Let her send a message that he drowned in the lake when his canoe overturned
(c) Arm himself before he returns to the encampment
(d) Marry her and run to the garrison where they will be safe

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Hutter buried?

2. What happens to Deerslayer's canoe as it drifts away from the lake shore?

3. What vow does Judith make?

4. Who accompanies Deerslayer to the Iroquois camp?

5. What do Judith and Hetty learn as Hutter lies on his deathbed?

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