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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. What do the fancy clothes and dueling pistols tell Judith?
(a) They are what is left over from her mother's wedding.
(b) They are probably stolen articles.
(c) They are not things Hutter would have bought.
(d) They are information she already knew about her parents.

2. Why do they move onto the Ark?
(a) They have lost all the canoes.
(b) They want the Iroquois to think they are still in the house.
(c) They can hide on the water behind the castle.
(d) It is easier to defend than the castle.

3. How does Hetty return to the castle?
(a) Wah-ta-Wah brings her.
(b) She is brought by an Iroquois boy.
(c) She returns alone in a canoe.
(d) Her father and Harry bring her back.

4. When they find the Hutter family, Harry is interested in Judith. In what is Deerslayer interested?
(a) Where they got the idea for the Ark
(b) The reason they are hiding on the boat
(c) How the boat is propelled
(d) The construction of the Ark

5. What does Hetty reveal to Chingachgook?
(a) That Wah-ta-Wah is no longer in the Iroquois camp
(b) That Wah-ta-Wah no longer wants to be rescued
(c) That Wah-ta-Wah has commited suicide
(d) Wah-ta-Wah's plan for her escape and rescue

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Deerslayer allow himself to be captured by the Iroquois?

2. What was the reaction of the Iroquois about Hutter and Harry wanting scalps?

3. Who comes to confront Deerslayer?

4. What does Deerslayer discover about Ravenoak's desires?

5. What strange thing do they find in the chest?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Deerslayer believe is the significance to a cluster of bloody sticks he finds?

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

3. What is the purpose of Chingachgook's expected arrival?

4. Discuss the element of rumor in The Deerslayer.

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

6. Why are Harry and Tom Hutter planning to collect Indian scalps?

7. When Deerslayer and Harry do not find the Hutter family at the house, what does Harry insist they do?

8. How does Hetty manage to enter the Iroquois encampment?

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

10. How does Cooper show that Hutter trusts Hetty more than he does Judith?

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