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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. Why does Hetty try to go to the Iroquois encampment?
(a) She will offer herself in exchange for her father and Harry.
(b) She thinks they will not see her because she is so small.
(c) She wants to warn them about the garrison soldiers.
(d) She believes she can negotiate with the Indians.

2. What does Judith try to do?
(a) Keep Hutter and Harry entertained while Deerslayer and Chingachgook slip away.
(b) Dress as a boy and go with Deerslayer and Chingachgook.
(c) Get Hetty to open the chest again.
(d) Prevent Deerslayer from going with Chingachgook.

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

4. After the bargaining is finished, what happens?
(a) Harry becomes ill with the smallpox.
(b) The entire Iroquois encampment comes to the edge of the lake.
(c) Ravenoak changes his mind and refuses to release the men.
(d) Hutter and Harry are brought to the Ark and the exchange is made.

5. What does Judith try to find out from Deerslayer?
(a) If he will take them to New York
(b) If he has a lover or a wife
(c) Where he heard stories about her reputation
(d) If he plans to look for her father

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the fancy clothes and dueling pistols tell Judith?

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

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

4. What does Hetty do to try and win the release of her father and Harry?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does Deerslayer prevent Chingachgook from doing?

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

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

8. What do they find when they reach the Iroquois encampment to recapture Wah-ta-Wah?

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

10. What happens to Harry and Hutter when they go ashore to find scalps?

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