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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 happens in the second phase?
(a) They tie him to a tree and allow the squaws and children to throw rocks at him.
(b) They hang Deerslayer up by putting pins in his chest and attaching ropes to those.
(c) They make him run through a gauntlet.
(d) Instead of tomahawks, they use rifles and shoot as close as possible to Deerslayer's head.

2. What happens to spoil Judith's plan?
(a) One of the warriors recognizes Judith.
(b) The Iroquois think she is as incapacitated as Hetty.
(c) Judith's dress begins to unravel because it is so old.
(d) They ask Hetty who Judith is and Hetty cannot lie, admitting that she is her sister.

3. What is Judith's suggestion to Harry?
(a) That he take her and Hetty to Philadelphia.
(b) That he jump in the lake.
(c) That he go to the garrison and give them the location of the Iroquois.
(d) That he go and join the army.

4. What surprising thing happens when Deerslayer returns to the Iroquois?
(a) He is given one of the chess pieces.
(b) He is forgiven and allowed to leave.
(c) He is honored for keeping his word.
(d) He is invited to become an Iroquois.

5. Why does Judith refuse Harry's marriage proposal?
(a) Because she wants to join a convent.
(b) Because she is in love with Deerslayer.
(c) Because she is too emotionally upset to think about marriage.
(d) Because she loves a soldier at the garrison.

Short Answer Questions

1. What can Hetty not understand as Deerslayer tries to talk with her on the way back?

2. What does this situation foreshadow for Deerslayer?

3. What happens to prevent the torture by fire?

4. How does Deerslayer react to the first phase of the torture?

5. What does Judith do after Hetty dies?

Short Essay Questions

1. What unfortunate event causes the woman on the shore to scream?

2. What are the circumstances of Deerslayer paddling a canoe up to the house?

3. Describe the good-byes as Deerslayer prepares to return to the Iroquois.

4. What brings the entire tribe to want him tortured and killed?

5. What do the girls learn from Hutter as he speaks to them from his deathbed?

6. What happens when they return and enter Muskrat Castle?

7. What becomes of the Iroquois by the next morning?

8. After Hutter is buried in the lake, for what does Judith hope?

9. What do Judith and Hetty discover after the Iroquois leave the castle?

10. Why does Judith give Deerslayer a special gift?

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