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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Judith do together with Deerslayer?
(a) Go for a midnight swim
(b) Prepare a meal of freshly caught fish
(c) Make plans to protect Hetty
(d) Examine the contents of the old chest

2. The morning after Deerslayer's furlough, what is the main topic of conversation?
(a) How to get Deerslayer to escape with his life
(b) Life after death
(c) Wedding plans for Judith and Deerslayer
(d) Things they remember about their childhoods

3. What does Hutter do when he discovers that Deerslayer has been captured?
(a) He hides behind the old chest.
(b) He fires his gun at someone on the shore and kills the warrior's lover.
(c) He insists that they take the Ark to the other side of the lake.
(d) He gets in a canoe and races ashore to find Deerslayer.

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

5. What does chief Ravenoak want to do?
(a) Take Deerslayer's scalp
(b) Find Judith and make her watch the torture
(c) End the torture because of Deerslayer's bravery
(d) Move on to the next phase

6. What prevents the Iroquois from attacking Deerslayer, Wah-ta-Wah, and Chingachgook after they free him?
(a) A troop from the garrison
(b) Harry arrives with a rifle and holds them off
(c) Ravenoak has a heart attack
(d) A group of Delaware warriors

7. When the Iroquois go after Judith and Hetty in their canoe, how do the girls escape capture?
(a) The Iroquois break an oar and have to abandon the chase.
(b) They shoot the Iroquois with the dureling pistols.
(c) A fog rolls in and hides the girls.
(d) Chingachgook shoots them from the boat.

8. What member of Deerslayer's group gets shot in the conflict between the Iroquois and the soldiers?
(a) Harry
(b) Judith
(c) Wah-ta-Wah
(d) Hetty

9. Where do Chingachgook and Wah-ta-Wah see Harry the next morning?
(a) Hanging from a tree on the island
(b) Tied up on the platform in front of the castle
(c) Floating face down in the lake
(d) Sitting in the canoe with Judith and Hetty

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

11. What is the first phase of Deerslayer's torture?
(a) They tie him spread eagled over an ant hill.
(b) Young braves throw tomahawks at his head to see how close they can throw without hitting him.
(c) He is held under water for several minutes at a time.
(d) They remove his moccasins and put hot coals on his feet.

12. What happens when Harry and Hutter enter Muskrat Castle that morning?
(a) They find Deerslayer there.
(b) They see that they were right about the castle being empty.
(c) They kill an Iroquois boy who came there to play.
(d) The Iroquois are waiting in ambush and capture them.

13. How do they find Muskrat Castle?
(a) Divided up into classrooms for a boy's school
(b) Just like they remembered it
(c) Deserted as though no one had lived there
(d) Fallen to the ground

14. What do Chingachgook and Wah-ta-Wah do the next morning?
(a) The use the spyglass to survey the lake.
(b) They plan how to take a canoe and desert the white people.
(c) They question Judith and Hetty for any information they might have.
(d) They cook fish they caught in the lake.

15. How do they manage to rescue Harry?
(a) They get to the platform without the Iroquois knowing they are there.
(b) They signal Judith and Hetty in the middle of the lake to go pick him up.
(c) They get close enough to throw him a rope and pull him into the water.
(d) They dock the Ark and quickly carry him aboard.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Deerslayer's canoe as it drifts away from the lake shore?

2. What does this situation foreshadow for Deerslayer?

3. What vow does Judith make?

4. What does Harry do after he hears the conditions brought by Deerslayer?

5. What happens to spoil Judith's plan?

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