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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Hawkeye's problem during the battle?
(a) He loses his eyeglasses.
(b) He slips on a wet rock.
(c) He sprains his ankle.
(d) He runs out of ammunition.

2. What happens as the Huron see one of their group fall dead?
(a) they hide behind the Munro girls
(b) they are momentarily immobile
(c) they run off in all directions
(d) they cut Heywood's throat

3. What does Heywood demand of Renard?
(a) that he leave
(b) that he go for help
(c) that he protect the girls
(d) that he translate

4. How do Hawkeye, Uncas, and Chingachgook leave to find help?
(a) floating down the river
(b) headed first in the wrong direction to confuse the Iroquois
(c) separately, walking along the banks of the river
(d) Uncas alone and Hawkeye and Chingachgook together

5. Where do they stop to rest?
(a) a pony express station
(b) under a giant oak
(c) a hunter's cabin
(d) a decayed blockhouse

6. What is the secret place where Hawkeye, Chingachgook and Uncas take the major and the Munro girls?
(a) a treehouse in the forest
(b) a cave behind a waterfall
(c) a clearing behind a large rock
(d) a hut inside a briar patch

7. What do Cora and Alice believe while in captivity?
(a) that rescue will come
(b) that they will become slaves
(c) that they will be forced to marry an Indian
(d) that they will be scalped

8. What is the message for Ft. Henry?
(a) the French have surrendered
(b) a batallion is coming from the north
(c) no troops are coming from Ft. Edward
(d) troops from Ft. Edward will arrive by nightfall

9. Who is the Indian waiting with the European?
(a) Uncas
(b) Chingachgook
(c) Hiawatha
(d) Mangua

10. After the Indian ambush, who are out looking for Cora and Alice?
(a) Montcalm and his men
(b) Uncas and his father, Hawkeye, Munro, and Heyward
(c) the Mohicans
(d) soldiers from the garrison

11. Who is invited to dinner at the French camp under a flag of truce?
(a) Cora Munro
(b) Alice Munro
(c) Duncan Heyward
(d) Colonel Munro

12. Who spots the four hiding in the back of the cave?
(a) Uncas who has doubled back
(b) Magua, also called Renard
(c) Hawkeye who returns unexpectedly
(d) an Iroquois squaw

13. What interrupts David Gamut's song in the cave?
(a) Hawkeye tells him to be quiet
(b) a sound that no one can identify.
(c) the horses splashing in the pool
(d) a rockslide outside the cave

14. How does Cooper describe the setting of the novel?
(a) the land that time forgot
(b) the bloody area
(c) the foothills of the wilderness
(d) the back of beyond

15. Leaving the safety of the thicket, what do they hear?
(a) horses
(b) deer
(c) bears
(d) men

Short Answer Questions

1. Led captive by the Iroquois and Renard, which way do they travel?

2. Who comes across the Indian scout and the hunter?

3. As what do the hunters identify Heywood's guide?

4. What is Magua's objection to the surrender treaty?

5. What is the suggestion in the letter from Gen. Webb?

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