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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 remarkable thing do the letters reveal?
(a) Judith's and Hetty's mother had a relationship with the man who was their father.
(b) Hutter had once been a prominent banker in New York.
(c) Their mother's family had disinherited her when she married Hutter.
(d) Judith's and Hetty's real father was killed in the Revolutionary War.

2. Where do Chingachgook and Wah-ta-Wah see Harry the next morning?
(a) Hanging from a tree on the island
(b) Tied up on the platform in front of the castle
(c) Sitting in the canoe with Judith and Hetty
(d) Floating face down in the lake

3. What happens when Deerslayer still refuses to marry the Indian woman?
(a) Ravenoak puts a gun to his head.
(b) The Indian woman commits suicide.
(c) The tribe takes it as a collective insult.
(d) The Iroquois people give up.

4. What prevents the Iroquois from attacking Deerslayer, Wah-ta-Wah, and Chingachgook after they free him?
(a) A group of Delaware warriors
(b) A troop from the garrison
(c) Harry arrives with a rifle and holds them off
(d) Ravenoak has a heart attack

5. Who do they see paddling in a canoe and coming toward them out on the lake?
(a) Ravenoak
(b) Harry
(c) A soldier from the garrison
(d) Deerslayer

Short Answer Questions

1. After they talk for a long time, what do Hetty and Judith do?

2. Why does he have to lie down in the canoe?

3. Although Deerslayer admires the Indians, what attitude of his lies just under the surface?

4. What is rumored to have become of Judith?

5. When the Iroquois go after Judith and Hetty in their canoe, how do the girls escape capture?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the first torture they use with Deerslayer and how does he react?

3. What action does Harry finally take?

4. Where is the canoe that brought Hetty to shore hidden from view?

5. What unusual thing happens while Judith and Hetty are in the canoe?

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

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

8. What happens when the second torture begins.

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

10. Ravenoak admires Deerslayer's courage and offers him his freedom under what condition?

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