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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do March and Deerslayer finally find the Hutters?
(a) Visiting with the Iroquois
(b) On their boat called the Ark
(c) Just arriving back from Philadelphia
(d) In the Delaware village

2. Instead of Harry's prearranged signal, what does Deerslayer hear?
(a) A woman scream
(b) Nothing
(c) The cry of a wounded moose
(d) War drums

3. Hetty's simple religious principles bring out what characteristic in her father and Harry?
(a) Their real understanding of cultures
(b) Their open-mindedness
(c) Their lack of education
(d) Their religious hypocracy

4. What are Harry and Hutter planning when they get to the Iroquois encampment?
(a) Taking Indian scalps
(b) Enlisting them to help guard Muskrat Castle
(c) Taking the chief hostage
(d) Carrying off two of their women

5. When Deerslayer realizes Harry and Hutter have been taken captive, what does he do?
(a) He goes to sleep in his canoe.
(b) He takes Hetty and goes to the encampment.
(c) He goes ashore and heads for the garrison.
(d) He wakes the girls and gives them guns.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Hutter concerned at that time?

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

3. Why Deerslayer is more interested in Hetty than in Judith.

4. What shows the strong character of Deerslayer in the opening of the novel?

5. Why does Deerslayer not raise his rifle against the Iroquois who shot at him?

(see the answer key)

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