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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Why does Hutter want to attack the Iroquois encampments?
(a) To carry off a wife
(b) To aid the British
(c) To prevent them from attacking first
(d) To collect and sell scalps

4. What does Chingachgook want to do?
(a) Go alone to rescue his wife
(b) Make a bomb to throw into the Iroquois camp
(c) Take Hetty back to the camp to negotiate the release of his wife
(d) Trade Hetty for his wife

5. What does Hetty do to try and win the release of her father and Harry?
(a) She lies down on the ground and begins to cry.
(b) She reads Bible passages to them.
(c) She offers to marry the chief.
(d) She tells them where they can find the French.

6. What does Deerslayer say to March when he impulsively shoots a deer just for sport?
(a) He must remember the spot so they can collect the deer when they go back to shore.
(b) He should be careful not to shoot a cow by mistake.
(c) He should never fire a rifle from a canoe because it could tip over.
(d) It is wrong to kill an animal without intending to eat its meat or make something from its skin.

7. What happens when Deerslayer wakes the following morning?
(a) He goes up to the house for breakfast.
(b) He paddles quickly to shore to look for Harry and Hutter.
(c) An Iroquois on shore shoots at him.
(d) He makes bird calls to see if Harry will reply.

8. When asked why they came there, what do Hutter and Harry admit?
(a) That they were looking for Iroquois women to capture.
(b) That they came there for scalps.
(c) That they had heard the Iroquois had gold.
(d) That they were spies for the soldiers in the garrison.

9. What does Deerslayer have to tell Judith and Hetty?
(a) He has to tell them how to shoot a rifle.
(b) He has to tell them where to find their father.
(c) He has to explain why they need to stay on the island.
(d) He has to relate what happened to their father and Harry.

10. What does Judith tell Deerslayer about the chess pieces?
(a) That they are part of a game she had seen the soldiers play at the garrison.
(b) That they are decoations for a whatnot stand.
(c) That they are toys for small children.
(d) That they are forms of money in India.

11. Prior to Hutter and Harry going to the encampment, what does Deerslayer do?
(a) He urges them to go without their muskets.
(b) He gives them new mossasins to wear.
(c) He warns them that what they are planning is wrong.
(d) He shows them how to slip up on the camp.

12. Who interrogates Deerslayer?
(a) Chief Ravenoak
(b) Briarthorn
(c) The tribal council
(d) The old woman he grabbed

13. 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.

14. Why does Chingachgook want to go to shore with Harry and Hutter?
(a) He wants to get scalps with them.
(b) He wants to prove that he is brave.
(c) He wants to kill more deer.
(d) He wants to keep an eye on them.

15. What shows the strong character of Deerslayer in the opening of the novel?
(a) His promise to go to the authorities if anything were to happen to any man who marries Judith.
(b) His insistance on having the land surveyed
(c) His refusal to take part in any war
(d) His willingness to compromise for a friend

Short Answer Questions

1. What do they find when they get to the Iroquois encampment?

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

3. What do they use to bargain for the lives of Hutter and Harry?

4. What does the discussion about scalping do for the novel?

5. For what does Deerslayer prepare himself?

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