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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Judith do after Hetty dies?
(a) She burns Muskrat Castle to the ground.
(b) She forgets trying to get Deerslayer to marry her.
(c) She decides to remain in Muskrat Castle out of respect for Hetty.
(d) She closes Muskrat Castle and prepares to leave.

4. What does chief Ravenoak want to do with Deerslayer?
(a) He wants to take his scalp.
(b) He wants to keep him as a hostage.
(c) He wants to pardon him.
(d) He wants to torture him.

5. What do they find in the old chest?
(a) Instructions for receiving a large inheritance
(b) Deeds to property that belonged to the girls' mother
(c) Their mother's diary
(d) Old letters that belonged to Judith's mother

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

7. What does Judith do together with Deerslayer?
(a) Go for a midnight swim
(b) Examine the contents of the old chest
(c) Make plans to protect Hetty
(d) Prepare a meal of freshly caught fish

8. What challenge does Wah-ta-Wah deliver to Briarthorn, the man who had kidnapped her?
(a) She challenges him to fight Deerslayer man-to-man.
(b) She challenges him to fight Chingachgook.
(c) She challenges him to fight her with knives.
(d) She challenges him to undergo the same tortures as Deerslayer.

9. Who comes to Deerslayer to state her case?
(a) The widow of the Iroquois he killed
(b) Judith
(c) Wah-ta-Wah
(d) Hetty

10. What farewell message does Deerslayer give to Wah-ta-Wah?
(a) To go back with him to the Iroquois to protect Chingachgook
(b) To convince Judith to go with them to the Delaware
(c) To be proud of her husband and take care of him
(d) To be careful that she is not abducted again

11. Why does Judith feel affection for Deerslayer?
(a) Because he is so ruggedly handsome
(b) Because she believes she owes it to him
(c) Because of his honesty and moral character
(d) Because she wants to use him to get away from Harry

12. After they talk for a long time, what do Hetty and Judith do?
(a) Find a place to sleep in the bushes near the lake
(b) Slip up close to the camp to find Deerslayer
(c) Start paddling the canoe back to the Ark
(d) Load the dueling pistols and head for the camp

13. What remarkable thing do the letters reveal?
(a) Judith's and Hetty's mother had a relationship with the man who was their father.
(b) Hutter had once been a prominent banker in New York.
(c) Judith's and Hetty's real father was killed in the Revolutionary War.
(d) Their mother's family had disinherited her when she married Hutter.

14. What are the terms of Deerslayer's furlough?
(a) To burn down Muskrat Castle.
(b) To take the Ark and the chest to Ravenoak.
(c) To ask Wah-ta-Wah and Judith to return and marry Iroquois warriors.
(d) To bring Hetty back to the tribe for good luck.

15. After refusing the Iroquois woman for the last time, what preparations are made?
(a) For a raid on Muskrat Castle
(b) For a war dance
(c) For taking Deerslayer's scalp
(d) For Deerslayer's torture

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the Iroquois do when they notice Harry is missing?

2. How does Cooper describe the massacre of the Iroquois?

3. Although Deerslayer admires the Indians, what attitude of his lies just under the surface?

4. What do Chingachgook and Deerslayer do that morning?

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

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