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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Hetty's passing like?
(a) Many friends are gathered around her and she gives them all her love.
(b) She has a great deal of pain before she dies.
(c) Hetty is scared of dying and hold's Deerslayer's hand tightly.
(d) There is great hysteria on the part of Judith.

2. What does Judith hope she will find in the old chest?
(a) Something they can sell for a lot of money
(b) Papers that give them a clue as to their real family
(c) Some interesting books to read
(d) Information about all the land Hutter owned

3. When the Iroquois go after Judith and Hetty in their canoe, how do the girls escape capture?
(a) The Iroquois break an oar and have to abandon the chase.
(b) Chingachgook shoots them from the boat.
(c) They shoot the Iroquois with the dureling pistols.
(d) A fog rolls in and hides the girls.

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

5. 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 jump into canoes and paddle to the island.
(d) Most of them are killed by the soldiers.

6. What do Chingachgook and Wah-ta-Wah do the next morning?
(a) They cook fish they caught in the lake.
(b) The use the spyglass to survey 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.

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

8. What happens when Harry and Hutter enter Muskrat Castle that morning?
(a) They see that they were right about the castle being empty.
(b) The Iroquois are waiting in ambush and capture them.
(c) They find Deerslayer there.
(d) They kill an Iroquois boy who came there to play.

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

10. What surprising thing happens when Deerslayer returns to the Iroquois?
(a) He is given one of the chess pieces.
(b) He is invited to become an Iroquois.
(c) He is forgiven and allowed to leave.
(d) He is honored for keeping his word.

11. What does Hetty try to do for Deerslayer?
(a) She reads Bible passages to the Iroquois.
(b) She stands in front of Deerslayer and dares them to shoot her.
(c) She runs to the garrison for help.
(d) She tries to intervene and is listened to politely but the torture continues.

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

13. What is on Judith's mind as she goes to bed the night she asked Deerslayer to marry her?
(a) A secret plan for the next day
(b) Wondering if she would like being called Mrs. Bumppo
(c) Going west with Dearslayer
(d) A house with a rose garden in front

14. What stipulation does Ravenoak put on Deerslayer's freedom?
(a) He must bring Judith to the encampment to marry a warrior.
(b) He must kill twenty deer to help feed the people.
(c) He must marry the widow of the man he killed.
(d) He must tell the French information about the garrison.

15. 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 much he admires her
(c) How she must not end up like her mother
(d) How he never believed the rumors about her

Short Answer Questions

1. What vow does Judith make?

2. Who comes to Deerslayer to state her case?

3. Why does Judith refuse Harry's marriage proposal?

4. How does Deerslayer react to the first phase of the torture?

5. What do they discover Hutter's real name and background to be?

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