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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do the Iroquois on the island not kill Harry and Hutter?
(a) They now think they are mentally afflicted like Hetty.
(b) They want to take them to get the rest of the treasure on the Ark.
(c) They want to make them suffer under torture.
(d) They are on the island and do not know about the dead woman.

2. What does Judith try to do to stop the torture?
(a) She disguises herself as a ghost and tries to frighten the Indians.
(b) She dresses in fine clothes from the chest and comes to the Iroquois pretending to be a powerful woman.
(c) She agrees to marry a warrior if they stop the torture.
(d) She gets Deerslayer's rifle and threatens to kill Ravenoak.

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

4. 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) They shoot the Iroquois with the dureling pistols.
(c) Chingachgook shoots them from the boat.
(d) A fog rolls in and hides the girls.

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

6. What vow does Judith make?
(a) To trade herself for Deerslayer
(b) To liberate Deerslayer
(c) To kill Chief Ravenoak
(d) To run away from her father

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

8. How do they find Hutter when they enter the house?
(a) He is laughing at the stupid Indians.
(b) He is hanging upside down from the second floor.
(c) He is dying.
(d) He is unconscious.

9. What happens in the second phase?
(a) They tie him to a tree and allow the squaws and children to throw rocks at him.
(b) They make him run through a gauntlet.
(c) They hang Deerslayer up by putting pins in his chest and attaching ropes to those.
(d) Instead of tomahawks, they use rifles and shoot as close as possible to Deerslayer's head.

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

11. 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 gold ring she found in the chest
(d) A locket that once belonged to her mother

12. What do Judith and Hetty learn as Hutter lies on his deathbed?
(a) That he forced himself on their mother and she had to marry him.
(b) That he is not their real father.
(c) That he killed their mother.
(d) That they have a sister then never knew.

13. What gives Chingachgook the idea that the Iroquois have taken over Muskrat Castle during the night?
(a) Wah-ta-Wah understands how the Iroquois think
(b) It is too quiet on the lake shore
(c) There seem to be more canoes tied up on the island
(d) A moccasin floating on the lake

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

15. 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) Their mother's family had disinherited her when she married Hutter.
(d) Judith's and Hetty's real father was killed in the Revolutionary War.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Chingachgook and Deerslayer do that morning?

2. What does Harry advise Deerslayer to do?

3. What are the terms of Deerslayer's furlough?

4. Where is Hutter buried?

5. What does chief Ravenoak want to do?

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