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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the difference between his escape from the camp and an escape during a furlough?
(a) Escape from the camp is considerd honorable while escape from the furlough is dishonorable.
(b) There is no difference; both are dishonorable.
(c) Escape from the camp is really impossible.
(d) There is no sport in an escape during a furlough.

2. What do they discover Hutter's real name and background to be?
(a) His real name was Huston and he was once a gambler.
(b) His real name was Cooper and he was once a newspaperman.
(c) His real name was Hovey and he had been a pirate.
(d) His real name was Jefferson and he was once a lawyer.

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

4. What scares the two women as they are leaving their hiding place along the shore?
(a) A woman's scream
(b) The brown bear family
(c) Deerslayer's cry of pain
(d) The return of the Iroquois warriors

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

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

7. Why does Judith refuse Harry's marriage proposal?
(a) Because she wants to join a convent.
(b) Because she is too emotionally upset to think about marriage.
(c) Because she is in love with Deerslayer.
(d) Because she loves a soldier at the garrison.

8. How does Deerslayer react to the first phase of the torture?
(a) He closes his eyes and expects to die.
(b) He curses the Iroquois.
(c) He agrees to marry the Iroquois widow.
(d) He never flinches during the torture.

9. How does Cooper describe the massacre of the Iroquois?
(a) He glosses over it, mainly talking about the clean up afterwards.
(b) He describes it in bloody detail.
(c) He gives only the garrison's side of the conflict.
(d) He describes it through the eyes of Deerslayer.

10. Where is Hetty buried?
(a) In the lake near her mother and Hutter
(b) Where the encampment once stood
(c) At the garrison
(d) Under Muskrat Castle

11. What do Chingachgook and Deerslayer do that morning?
(a) Shoot at birds with the rifle Judith gave Deerslayer
(b) Take a canoe ride
(c) Chant prayers in the Delaware language
(d) Help everyone load up the Ark

12. How long is it before Deerslayer and Chingachgook return to the area?
(a) Twenty years
(b) Ten years
(c) Fifteen years
(d) Two years

13. What happens to Deerslayer's canoe as it drifts away from the lake shore?
(a) It drifts into some reeds and out of sight.
(b) It begins to sink.
(c) It is once again captured by the Iroquois.
(d) It goes unnoticed by the Iroquois.

14. What gift does Judith give Deerslayer?
(a) A Killdeer rifle that used to belong to Hutter
(b) A lace handkerchief with her initials on it
(c) A locket that once belonged to her mother
(d) A gold ring she found in the chest

15. What do the Iroquois offer in return for the women agreeing to return?
(a) Protection
(b) Places of honor in the tribe
(c) The ivory chess pieces
(d) A guarantee they will not kill their men

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Judith hope she will find in the old chest?

2. Who do they see paddling in a canoe and coming toward them out on the lake?

3. What happens when Deerslayer still refuses to marry the Indian woman?

4. What strange thing takes place that Judith and Hetty do not understand as they paddle away in the canoe.

5. What promise does Chingachgook make to Deerslayer?

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