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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Heywood and his party not realize?
(a) They have made a wrong turn.
(b) Fort Henry has been defeated.
(c) They are being watched.
(d) They do not have enough provisions.

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

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

4. How do Hawkeye, Uncas, and Chingachgook leave to find help?
(a) floating down the river
(b) headed first in the wrong direction to confuse the Iroquois
(c) separately, walking along the banks of the river
(d) Uncas alone and Hawkeye and Chingachgook together

5. Who does Maj. Heyward elect to lead him and the young Munro women to Fort Henry?
(a) Hawkeye
(b) an Indian scout
(c) a British sergeant major
(d) the psalmist

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do they stop to rest?

2. What do the men realize as they study the trail?

3. What happens to Heyward when he tries to defend Alice?

4. What is it that Hawkeye fears?

5. What encourages the searchers?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do they find as they near Fort Henry?

2. What plan does Magua have for the group of captives after Cora rejects his advances?

3. After leaving in the opposite direction of the Iroquois, what does the reader learn about Hawkeye?

4. Why does Hawkeye say they returned to the cave site?

5. After Hawkeye, Chingachgook, and Uncas leave to find help, what happens back near the cave?

6. Explain what the Iroquois are really after.

7. Describe the time and events during which the story begins.

8. Explain how David Gamut is allowed to accompany Heyward, Alice, and Cora on the trip to Ft. Henry.

9. What does Cora manage to convince the men to do?

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

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