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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens when Deerslayer declines to marry the Iroquois woman?
(a) The tribe rushes at him trying to tear him limb from limb.
(b) Her late husband's brother throws his tomahawk at Deerslayer's head.
(c) The woman lunges at him with a knife.
(d) Ravenoak tries to kill him.

2. 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 Chingachgook.
(d) She challenges him to fight her with knives.

3. What is the Indian equivalent of Heaven according to their discussion that morning?
(a) Nirvana
(b) The happy hunting ground
(c) The cloud land
(d) The Great Spirit Home

4. What does Judith urge him to do?
(a) Arm himself before he returns to the encampment
(b) Marry her and run to the garrison where they will be safe
(c) Let her send a message that he drowned in the lake when his canoe overturned
(d) Get away where the Iroquois cannot find him

5. Who is the leader of the soldiers that defeat the Iroquois?
(a) Harry
(b) A Delaware scout
(c) Captain Warley
(d) Judith's and Hetty's long lost brother

6. What surprising thing happens when Deerslayer returns to the Iroquois?
(a) He is honored for keeping his word.
(b) He is forgiven and allowed to leave.
(c) He is given one of the chess pieces.
(d) He is invited to become an Iroquois.

7. What does Judith try to do to stop the torture?
(a) She disguises herself as a ghost and tries to frighten the Indians.
(b) She gets Deerslayer's rifle and threatens to kill Ravenoak.
(c) She dresses in fine clothes from the chest and comes to the Iroquois pretending to be a powerful woman.
(d) She agrees to marry a warrior if they stop the torture.

8. What scares the two women as they are leaving their hiding place along the shore?
(a) A woman's scream
(b) Deerslayer's cry of pain
(c) The return of the Iroquois warriors
(d) The brown bear family

9. How do they find Hutter when they enter the house?
(a) He is dying.
(b) He is hanging upside down from the second floor.
(c) He is laughing at the stupid Indians.
(d) He is unconscious.

10. What does chief Ravenoak want to do with Deerslayer?
(a) He wants to pardon him.
(b) He wants to keep him as a hostage.
(c) He wants to torture him.
(d) He wants to take his scalp.

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

12. What happens to Deerslayer's canoe as it drifts away from the lake shore?
(a) It is once again captured by the Iroquois.
(b) It begins to sink.
(c) It drifts into some reeds and out of sight.
(d) It goes unnoticed by the Iroquois.

13. After refusing the Iroquois woman for the last time, what preparations are made?
(a) For a war dance
(b) For Deerslayer's torture
(c) For taking Deerslayer's scalp
(d) For a raid on Muskrat Castle

14. How long is it before Deerslayer and Chingachgook return to the area?
(a) Ten years
(b) Twenty years
(c) Fifteen years
(d) Two years

15. What does this situation foreshadow for Deerslayer?
(a) Marriage proposals from both Judith and the Iroquois tribe
(b) A deliverance by the Delaware tribe
(c) Another chance to make his escape
(d) Serious punishment when he returns empty handed

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Hetty go in the middle of the night?

2. What does Judith do after Hetty dies?

3. What does chief Ravenoak want to do?

4. What happens in the second phase?

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

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