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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 challenge does Wah-ta-Wah deliver to Briarthorn, the man who had kidnapped her?
(a) She challenges him to fight Deerslayer man-to-man.
(b) She challenges him to undergo the same tortures as Deerslayer.
(c) She challenges him to fight her with knives.
(d) She challenges him to fight Chingachgook.

2. Why does he have to lie down in the canoe?
(a) There are no seats in the canoe.
(b) The Iroquois are shooting at him.
(c) He hurt his back running away.
(d) He doesn't want them to know where he is.

3. What promise does Chingachgook make to Deerslayer?
(a) That he will take Judith and Hetty to the Delaware.
(b) That he will not return to the Delaware until he knows what happens with his friend.
(c) That he will go with him to the Iroquois.
(d) That he will bury him in the hills if he does not survive.

4. Although Deerslayer admires the Indians, what attitude of his lies just under the surface?
(a) He does not approve of interracial marriage.
(b) He believes he would never make a good husband.
(c) He wants to be free to go to other frontiers.
(d) He never trusts Indians or frontier white men.

5. 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

Short Answer Questions

1. What strange thing takes place that Judith and Hetty do not understand as they paddle away in the canoe.

2. What scares the two women as they are leaving their hiding place along the shore?

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

4. What attitude do Harry and Hutter have about Chingachgook's fears?

5. What happened to most of the Iroquois?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Deerslayer almost escape the Iroquois?

2. What are the terms the Iroquois give Deerslayer to offer the people on the Ark?

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

4. Why does Judith give Deerslayer a special gift?

5. What advice does Deerslayer give when Judith tries to suggest she wants to marry him?

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

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

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

9. What happens to Harry and Hutter after they are captured in the house?

10. What causes Harry to have a change of mind about taking scalps?

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