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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 26.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Magua hate Cora's father?
(a) He killed Magua's Indian wife.
(b) He made Magua eat off the floor.
(c) He had Magua whipped publicly for drunkenness.
(d) He made Magua do woman's work in the fort.

2. What is Magua's background?
(a) a warrior of the Sioux
(b) a foundling raised by the Delaware
(c) the son of a Huron chief
(d) a renegade from the Seminole

3. What does Magua want Cora to do after becoming his wife?
(a) bake his bread and tuck him in at night
(b) bear him many daughters to sell
(c) renounce her father
(d) draw his water, hoe his corn, and cook his venison

4. What do Cora and Alice believe while in captivity?
(a) that they will be forced to marry an Indian
(b) that they will be scalped
(c) that rescue will come
(d) that they will become slaves

5. Who has pursued the Indians and their captives?
(a) Hawkeye
(b) Chingachgook
(c) Uncas
(d) David

Short Answer Questions

1. What encourages the searchers?

2. How do Hawkeye and Uncas leave David in the lodge?

3. After the Indian ambush, who are out looking for Cora and Alice?

4. What does Uncas find?

5. How does Magua know the girls' father?

(see the answer key)

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