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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What saves them from the Frenchman who discovers them?
(a) Alice's ragged skirts
(b) Chingashgook's pidgin French
(c) Heyward's French accent
(d) Cora's perfect French

4. Who prevents Cora from being scalped?
(a) Hawkeye
(b) Alice
(c) Chingachgook
(d) Uncas

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is described as possessing muscular features?

3. What does the strange sound turn out to be?

4. What does Hawkeye recall at a pond?

5. What is Magua's background?

(see the answer key)

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