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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Deerslayer's problem that makes him uncomfortable around Judith?
(a) Her great beauty
(b) Her reputation for being morally lax
(c) Her education which makes him feel inferior
(d) Her disinterest in him

2. How do Hutter, March, and Deerslayer secure Muskrat Castle on the island in the middle of the lake?
(a) They send a carrier pidgeon to the garrison.
(b) They find all the canoes hidden along the lake shore and take them to the middle of the lake.
(c) They build a circle of fire around the house.
(d) They establish a watch throughout the night.

3. What does the dying Iroquois say to Deerslayer?
(a) That he should learn how to shoot better.
(b) That he should be called Hawkeye.
(c) That he must not marry his widow.
(d) That he speaks with forked tongue.

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

5. Who appears on the shore and prepares to attack the people on the Ark?
(a) A group of renegade settlers
(b) A French brigade
(c) Members of the Delaware tribe
(d) Native Indians who fight for the French

Short Answer Questions

1. The men who emerge from the woods in the opening of the novel.

2. What conversation passes between Deerslayer and the Iroquois?

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

4. When they find the Hutter family, Harry is interested in Judith. In what is Deerslayer interested?

5. When Deerslayer realizes Harry and Hutter have been taken captive, what does he do?

(see the answer key)

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