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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who in the group does not sleep in the cave that night?
(a) Hawkeye, Chingachgook, and Uncas
(b) Alice, Cora, and Heyward
(c) Heywood, Hawkeye, and Uncas
(d) Gamut, Alice, and Hawkeye

2. What prevents an Indian from killing Col. Munro?
(a) a shot by Hawkeye
(b) a shot by General Montcalm
(c) a shot by Uncas
(d) a shot by Duncan Heyward

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

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

5. What request does Heyward make of Hawkeye, Chingachgook, and Uncas?
(a) to guide them to Ft. Henry
(b) to hunt down the Iroquois
(c) to find disguises for the women
(d) to give them something to eat

6. What do the Iroquois do in the outer cave?
(a) take a break to eat
(b) set fire to the tree branches
(c) sit down to wait
(d) pile more branches over the ones already there

7. What is one of the rewards Heyward promises Renard if he helps them?
(a) ten horses
(b) a trip to England
(c) Cora as his wife
(d) a river of firewater

8. What explains the difference in the complexions of Cora and Alice?
(a) Their mother was a product of a white/black union.
(b) They had two different mothers.
(c) They had different fathers.
(d) They are adopted children.

9. Who is described as possessing muscular features?
(a) Chingachgook
(b) Magua
(c) Hawkeye
(d) Uncas

10. What does one of the Huron threaten to do to Alice?
(a) shoot her
(b) scalp her
(c) cut her face with his knife
(d) throw her into the river

11. What does Hawkeye recall at a pond?
(a) a battle with the French
(b) a deer he killed
(c) a fish he caught
(d) a camp he once set up

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

13. Why does Magua hate Cora's father?
(a) He had Magua whipped publicly for drunkenness.
(b) He made Magua do woman's work in the fort.
(c) He killed Magua's Indian wife.
(d) He made Magua eat off the floor.

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

15. What do they conclude has frightened the horses?
(a) a mountain lion
(b) Magua
(c) wolves
(d) the Iroquois

Short Answer Questions

1. Who immediately join in the fight with the Hurons?

2. After the Indian ambush, who are out looking for Cora and Alice?

3. Who does Maj. Heyward elect to lead him and the young Munro women to Fort Henry?

4. Who is the man of European stock waiting a few miles westward of Heyward and the Munro girls?

5. What threat is spotted by Hawkeye near a waterfall?

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