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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 disturbs Deerslayer about the chess pieces they find in the chest?
(a) He thinks they might be idols for strange worship.
(b) He does not understand how many there are supposed to be.
(c) He cannot imagine what the elephants are.
(d) He thinks Hutter had stolen them because they are ivory.

2. Who interrogates Deerslayer?
(a) The tribal council
(b) The old woman he grabbed
(c) Briarthorn
(d) Chief Ravenoak

3. Why are the Iroquois in that area in the first place?
(a) They got lost looking for the French.
(b) They are expecting to settle there.
(c) They are looking for game to kill before winter.
(d) They are making their way north to join the French.

4. After Hetty falls asleep in the forest, what does she discover when she wakes up?
(a) It is raining hard
(b) A family of brown bears
(c) Deerslayer and Chingachgook who finally located her
(d) A cloth filled with food

5. What convinces Deerslayer that the chess pieces are not idols?
(a) They would not be locked in a trunk if they are idols.
(b) They find the game board just as Judith had described it.
(c) They are too small to be idols.
(d) There is no book of idolatry in the chest.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Prior to Hutter and Harry going to the encampment, what does Deerslayer do?

3. What has Hutter found and shows to March and Deerslayer?

4. What does Judith try to do?

5. After the house is secure, what does Deerslayer agree to do?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why are the Iroquois there in that area?

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. Discuss Tom Hutter's racial prejudices as Harry March and Deerslayer arrive.

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

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