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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What saves them from the Frenchman who discovers them?
(a) Heyward's French accent
(b) Chingashgook's pidgin French
(c) Cora's perfect French
(d) Alice's ragged skirts
2. After Magua gets away for a second time, what happens to the dead Hurons?
(a) They are thrown into the river.
(b) They are scalped.
(c) They are piled up and burned.
(d) They are chopped into pieces.
3. Who is the person the Huron immediately suspect killed their comrade?
(a) Le Longue Carribine
(b) Duncan Heywood
(c) Uncas
(d) Chingachgook
4. Why does Heyward reprimand the Psalmist?
(a) for talking with the Indian scout
(b) for making too much noise
(c) for not being dressed properly
(d) for trying to join their group
5. Why does Magua hate Cora's father?
(a) He made Magua do woman's work in the fort.
(b) He made Magua eat off the floor.
(c) He killed Magua's Indian wife.
(d) He had Magua whipped publicly for drunkenness.
6. Who prevents Cora from being scalped?
(a) Alice
(b) Hawkeye
(c) Uncas
(d) Chingachgook
7. Who are the men out looking for the group?
(a) Magua and other Hurons
(b) Chingachgooks other son
(c) soldiers from Ft. Henry
(d) Delaware from Ft. Edward
8. What happens to Heyward when he tries to defend Alice?
(a) He is shot.
(b) He is knocked unconscious.
(c) His hands are bound.
(d) He is made to take Alice's place.
9. What does Magua want Cora to do after becoming his wife?
(a) bear him many daughters to sell
(b) renounce her father
(c) draw his water, hoe his corn, and cook his venison
(d) bake his bread and tuck him in at night
10. What do Cora and Alice believe while in captivity?
(a) that they will be forced to marry an Indian
(b) that rescue will come
(c) that they will be scalped
(d) that they will become slaves
11. What does Hawkeye recall at a pond?
(a) a battle with the French
(b) a deer he killed
(c) a fish he caught
(d) a camp he once set up
12. What happens as the Huron see one of their group fall dead?
(a) they are momentarily immobile
(b) they run off in all directions
(c) they hide behind the Munro girls
(d) they cut Heywood's throat
13. What is one thing Col. Munro says he never thought he would see?
(a) A Frenchman too honest to profit by his advantage.
(b) A battle that lasted more than twenty days.
(c) Indians coming to his rescue.
(d) His daughters getting married.
14. How does Cooper describe the setting of the novel?
(a) the bloody area
(b) the back of beyond
(c) the foothills of the wilderness
(d) the land that time forgot
15. What does Uncas take to ward off wolves?
(a) a firebrand
(b) his tomakawk
(c) Hawkeye's rifle
(d) several large stones
Short Answer Questions
1. Who does Heyward wish to marry?
2. Who comes across the Indian scout and the hunter?
3. What do they conclude has frightened the horses?
4. What does one of the Huron threaten to do to Alice?
5. Who is the man of European stock waiting a few miles westward of Heyward and the Munro girls?
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