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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 unexpected thing does Hetty do before they realize it?
(a) She tries to swim ashore and drowns.
(b) She sets fire to the house.
(c) She takes a canoe and paddles to the lake shore.
(d) She takes an axe and chops open the old chest.

2. What plans do Chingachgook and Deerslayer make together?
(a) To go rescue Wah-ta-Wah
(b) To hide Hutter's guns so he cannot make more trouble with the Iroquois
(c) To go hunting for deer meat they can cook on the Ark
(d) To find out where the Iroquois warriors have gone

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

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

5. How do Harry March and Deerslayer get to Muskrat Castle?
(a) By swimming out to the island
(b) On a ferry that runs three times a day
(c) When Thomas Hutter picked them up in his boat
(d) In a canoe March had hidden near the lake

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the dying Iroquois say to Deerslayer?

3. What conversation passes between Deerslayer and the Iroquois?

4. What warning is Hetty given before she gets to the Iroquois encampment?

5. Who is Deerslayer expecting to meet near the lake?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What items in the old chest particularly delight Deerslayer and Chingachgook?

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

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

5. Why does Deerslayer urge Hetty to leave the Iroquois camp?

6. Explain how Deerslayer is given the nickname, Hawkeye.

7. What does Deerslayer prevent Chingachgook from doing?

8. What action does Deerslayer take that allows Chingachgook and Wah-ta-Wah to escape?

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

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

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