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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 does Judith tell Deerslayer about the chess pieces?
(a) That they are forms of money in India.
(b) That they are toys for small children.
(c) That they are part of a game she had seen the soldiers play at the garrison.
(d) That they are decoations for a whatnot stand.

2. Why does Chingachgook want to go to shore with Harry and Hutter?
(a) He wants to prove that he is brave.
(b) He wants to keep an eye on them.
(c) He wants to get scalps with them.
(d) He wants to kill more deer.

3. When Chingachgook arrives, why do Judith and Hetty not understand their conversation?
(a) They speak French.
(b) They speak in the Delaware language.
(c) They speak only in sign language.
(d) They talk too softly for the girls to hear.

4. The men who emerge from the woods in the opening of the novel.
(a) Hurry Harry March and Deerslayer
(b) Chingachgook and Thomas Hutter
(c) Soldiers headed for the garrison
(d) Briarthorn and Natty Bumppo

5. As Hetty wanders in the forest looking for the Iroquois, who finds her?
(a) Wa-ta-Wah, Chingachgook's wife
(b) A small Iroquois boy
(c) Judith
(d) The captain of the garrison

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Judith find inside the chest?

2. What creates a problem for meeting Wah-ta-Wah at the place she tells Hetty for them to find her?

3. What does Deerslayer tell Hutter about their rescue?

4. Why does Deerslayer not raise his rifle against the Iroquois who shot at him?

5. Why are the Iroquois in that area in the first place?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do they bargain for the release of Hutter and Harry?

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

3. Discuss the element of rumor in The Deerslayer.

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

5. After they pick up Chingachgook, what information does he report?

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

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

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

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

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

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