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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Magua want Cora to do after becoming his wife?

2. What does Heyward do with the wounded David Gamut?

3. What is the joyful event at the fort?

4. Four days after Heywood and the girls enter Fort Henry, who is led to the fort?

5. Who does Heyward wish to marry?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Cora learn about Magua's early history?

2. What news is in the letter Hawkeye delivers to Gen. Munro?

3. What does Col. Munro say after he reads the letter intercepted from Gen. Webb and arranges the surrender with the French general?

4. Tell what happens when the hiding place is spotted by the Iroquois.

5. Describe where the group stops to rest as they continue on to Fort Henry.

6. Explain what the Iroquois are really after.

7. Describe the conflict between Gen. Montcalm and Le Renard.

8. Relate how Chingachgook explains why the Mohicans were finally unable to beat back the Iroquois.

9. Outline what Heyward tells Cora and Alice about their father while they hide in the cave behind the waterfall.

10. Discuss briefly the noise that is heard outside the cave.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay on how literary fiction influences popular thought. Keeping in mind that THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS was published in the 1800s, explain how it may have contributed to conventional wisdom about the habits of native Americans.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay about the process of writing a novel. Where should the story come from? How much research is necessary to write historical fiction? Include how you would go about writing your own novel.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay about how Cooper's use of different names for characters and Indian tribes in THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS affects the reading. In your opinion is it confusing? Does it require going back and re-reading certain sections of the novel?

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