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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 they find out when they are trying to open the old chest?
(a) The key is pinned behind a photograph of Judith's mother.
(b) The key is in the pocket of one of Hetty's dresses.
(c) The key is nowhere to be found.
(d) The key is hidden behind a loose stone in the fireplace.

2. When asked why they came there, what do Hutter and Harry admit?
(a) That they were looking for Iroquois women to capture.
(b) That they came there for scalps.
(c) That they were spies for the soldiers in the garrison.
(d) That they had heard the Iroquois had gold.

3. What are the warriors discussing when Deerslayer and Chingachgook approach the camp?
(a) The elephant chess pieces
(b) How they plan to surprise the British.
(c) Where they can find deer to kill.
(d) Why they are upset at being left with the women.

4. Who comes to confront Deerslayer?
(a) The tribal council
(b) The old woman he had grabbed
(c) Briarthorn, the warrior who had kidnapped Wah-ta-Wah
(d) No one. He was held captive tied to a tree

5. What does Chingachgook want to do?
(a) Go alone to rescue his wife
(b) Trade Hetty for his wife
(c) Make a bomb to throw into the Iroquois camp
(d) Take Hetty back to the camp to negotiate the release of his wife

Short Answer Questions

1. Who interrogates Deerslayer?

2. Why does Hetty try to go to the Iroquois encampment?

3. Why Deerslayer is more interested in Hetty than in Judith.

4. After the bargaining is finished, what happens?

5. What do they use to bargain for the lives of Hutter and Harry?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Deerslayer is interrogated by Ravenoak?

2. What causes Judith and Deerslayer to open the old chest that Hutter always keeps locked?

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

4. What action does Hetty take that points to her mental deficiency?

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

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

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

8. Show Deerslayer's feeling about not killing another human unless absolutely necessary.

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

10. What does Deerslayer prevent Chingachgook from doing?

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