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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Hetty try to go to the Iroquois encampment?
(a) She believes she can negotiate with the Indians.
(b) She thinks they will not see her because she is so small.
(c) She will offer herself in exchange for her father and Harry.
(d) She wants to warn them about the garrison soldiers.

2. Why does Hutter want to attack the Iroquois encampments?
(a) To prevent them from attacking first
(b) To collect and sell scalps
(c) To aid the British
(d) To carry off a wife

3. What does the discussion about scalping do for the novel?
(a) It proves that both white and Indian men are without morality.
(b) It foreshadows what will happen to Judith and Hetty.
(c) It gives historical background to the Seven Years War.
(d) It sets up an ongoing conflict throughout the story.

4. Why is Hutter concerned at that time?
(a) The war between the French and the British and the Indians that are aligned with each of them
(b) The war between the Delaware and the Huron tribes
(c) The difficulty in finding clean water
(d) Pirates who have been seen on the lake

5. What problem does going to talk with the Iroquois pose for Deerslayer?
(a) He is forced to admit that he had killed an Iroquois warrior.
(b) He thinks it will prevent Chingachgook from regaining his wife.
(c) He does not know the Iroquois language.
(d) He does not know how to make contact with the Iroquois.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Judith try to find out from Deerslayer?

2. What happens when Deerslayer turns his back on the Iroquois?

3. What happens when Deerslayer wakes the following morning?

4. Why do they move onto the Ark?

5. When Deerslayer realizes Harry and Hutter have been taken captive, what does he do?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Deerslayer prevent Chingachgook from doing?

2. After they take the Ark back to Muskrat Castle, how do they propose to keep the Iroquois from attacking them?

3. What are the circumstances when Chingachgook and Deerslayer locate the Iroquois camp?

4. What do they find when they reach the Iroquois encampment to recapture Wah-ta-Wah?

5. What relationship develops between Judith and Deerslayer?

6. What does Cooper use to show Hetty's innocence and purity?

7. Describe Harry and Deerslayer as they emerge from the woods at the beginning of the novel.

8. Why are the Iroquois not angered when they discover that Hutter and Harry are there to collect scalps?

9. After they get the items back into the old chest, what upsets Deerslayer?

10. Even though he is an expert marksman, what is Deerslayer's attitude about taking any kind of life?

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