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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On their way, what does Heyward continually try to do?
(a) persuade Magua to help them
(b) hide the girls in the forest
(c) find a chance to escape
(d) make markings on their trail

2. What is Magua's objection to the surrender treaty?
(a) no fires are set
(b) no money changed hands
(c) no scalps have been taken
(d) no hostages are taken

3. What does Uncas find?
(a) a piece of Alice's veil
(b) Alice's Bible
(c) Cora's scalp
(d) David's harmonica

4. After Magua gets away for a second time, what happens to the dead Hurons?
(a) They are piled up and burned.
(b) They are scalped.
(c) They are thrown into the river.
(d) They are chopped into pieces.

5. What happens to the evacuees from Ft. Henry?
(a) the women and children fall behand
(b) they get into quicksand
(c) 2000 Indians attack them
(d) the French open fire

6. Who are the men out looking for the group?
(a) Delaware from Ft. Edward
(b) Chingachgooks other son
(c) soldiers from Ft. Henry
(d) Magua and other Hurons

7. Why is Heyward convinced not to pursue Magua?
(a) It has gotten too dark.
(b) They will wait for him to return.
(c) There are probably Iroquois in the area.
(d) They cannot leave the girls alone.

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

9. What do the men realize as they study the trail?
(a) that they are outnumbered
(b) that they cannot follow it far
(c) that it ends in the river
(d) that this chase may take a long time

10. What distresses Uncas?
(a) His quivver is empty.
(b) He sees a Huron stealing the canoe.
(c) Chingachgook is shot in the arm.
(d) He knows the Iroquois have spotted the girls.

11. Who is at war as the novel begins?
(a) The British and the Americans
(b) The English and French
(c) The French and the Indians
(d) The English and the Indians

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

13. Who does Uncas say are hiding in the woods?
(a) Iroquois
(b) Mohicans
(c) Sioux
(d) Blackfeet

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

15. Where did Munro meet the girls' mother?
(a) in Africa
(b) in Florida
(c) in the West Indies
(d) in Canada

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do they stop to rest?

2. Who actually goes to the dinner?

3. When does the group prepare to move away from the blockhouse?

4. Who spots the four hiding in the back of the cave?

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

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