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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do they discover the footprints of women?
(a) near a stream where they drank
(b) deep in the worst thicket
(c) in a concealed trail
(d) in one small clearing

2. What resistance does Cora put up?
(a) Near the river, she jumps in.
(b) She grabs a knife and tries to kill a Huron.
(c) She threatens to jump off the cliff.
(d) Near a cliff, she refuses to go farther.

3. What startles David in the hut?
(a) when Reed that Bends is thrown in
(b) when the bear speaks
(c) when Uncas is thrown in
(d) when the hut catches fire

4. What does Magua use to persuade the chief?
(a) his powers of oratory
(b) his challenge
(c) his strength
(d) his gifts

5. What is David's cryptic message to Heywood in the cave?
(a) She expects you and is at hand.
(b) She has not been here.
(c) She is coming tomorrow.
(d) She was here yesterday.

6. What is Heywood's plan?
(a) to be painted as a Huron and go into the village
(b) to be painted blue and pretend to be ill
(c) to be painted black and go into the village at night
(d) to be painted as a clown and go to the village as a juggler

7. What does Heywood tell Alice?
(a) that her father is ill
(b) that her father is waiting at Fort Edward
(c) that her father refuses to let them marry
(d) that her father has given permission for them to marry

8. How do they know their passage across the lake is discovered?
(a) a white flag flying
(b) a clamor of whooping on an island
(c) a bullet fired and a shrill yell
(d) the sound of drums

9. What does David tell the Huron the bear is going to do to Uncas?
(a) eat him
(b) mark him for life
(c) carry him away
(d) to take the courage of the prisoner

10. How does Uncas disguise himself to escape?
(a) by changing clothes with Hawkeye
(b) by putting on the bear suit
(c) by painting his face
(d) by wearing a dress

11. What evidence do they keep finding that tells them they are on the right trail?
(a) bits of Alice's and Cora's dresses
(b) the mark of the horses
(c) the silence of the forest creatures
(d) the sound of a harmonica up ahead

12. What weapon does David insist he can use?
(a) a spear
(b) a pistol
(c) a sling
(d) a knife

13. What do the two Huron with Magua start to do?
(a) throw Cora off the cliff
(b) kill Cora with their tomahawks
(c) fight over who gets Cora
(d) dump Cora in the river

14. What do Hawkeye, Uncas, and Chingachgook do to confuse those following them?
(a) split up and leave three trails
(b) set fire to their canoes
(c) pretend to build a camp
(d) put down a false trail

15. What slows their progress in tracking the Indians?
(a) a few false leads
(b) a river crossing
(c) Heyward suffers from the heat
(d) Munro becomes hysterical

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the bear turn out to be?

2. When Uncas reappears, how does his face look?

3. Who is the intruder?

4. After Magua enters, what do Hawkeye and Heyward do with him?

5. How does Heywood smuggle Alice out of the cave?

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