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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who immediately join in the fight with the Hurons?
(a) two Delaware scouts
(b) Uncas and Chingachgook
(c) Heywood and Gamut
(d) Alice and Cora

2. What do they use over the entrance to the back of the cave?
(a) large rocks
(b) nothing, the waterfall covers it
(c) the horses
(d) blankets

3. Who is the man standing outside across the water?
(a) David Gamut
(b) Hawkeye
(c) Colonel Munro
(d) Duncan Heyward

4. What happens to the treacherous guide?
(a) Hawkeye kills him.
(b) He escapes without injury.
(c) Uncas gets him with an arrow.
(d) He is wounded but not caught.

5. How is Heyward nearly wounded?
(a) by a tomahawk
(b) by a knife in hand to hand combat
(c) by a glancing arrow
(d) by a bullet near his head

6. Who is the person the Huron immediately suspect killed their comrade?
(a) Duncan Heywood
(b) Le Longue Carribine
(c) Chingachgook
(d) Uncas

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

8. Who has pursued the Indians and their captives?
(a) Chingachgook
(b) Hawkeye
(c) Uncas
(d) David

9. At what time does Hawkeye wake everyone to resume their trip to Ft. Henry?
(a) at first light
(b) around midnight
(c) noon the next day
(d) six in the morning

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

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

12. Four days after Heywood and the girls enter Fort Henry, who is led to the fort?
(a) Uncas
(b) Hawkeye
(c) Duncan
(d) Montcalm

13. What does Cora suggest the men do?
(a) Leave them in the cave and go by river to seek help.
(b) Wait until dark to slip away.
(c) Build a big signal fire.
(d) Turn the women over to the Iroquois.

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

15. What does Magua want Cora to do after becoming his wife?
(a) draw his water, hoe his corn, and cook his venison
(b) renounce her father
(c) bake his bread and tuck him in at night
(d) bear him many daughters to sell

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one thing Col. Munro says he never thought he would see?

2. What advice does Hawkeye give as they battle the Iroquois?

3. Where did Munro meet the girls' mother?

4. Leaving the safety of the thicket, what do they hear?

5. What is Hawkeye's problem during the battle?

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