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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do they conclude has frightened the horses?
(a) wolves
(b) the Iroquois
(c) Magua
(d) a mountain lion

2. Who in the group does not sleep in the cave that night?
(a) Gamut, Alice, and Hawkeye
(b) Hawkeye, Chingachgook, and Uncas
(c) Alice, Cora, and Heyward
(d) Heywood, Hawkeye, and Uncas

3. After the men leave, what do Cora and Alice do?
(a) climb a tree
(b) make dummies dressed in their clothes to appear asleep
(c) hide in the cave
(d) stand under the waterfall

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

5. What advice does Hawkeye give as they battle the Iroquois?
(a) not to shoot till they can see the whites of their eyes
(b) to conserve their shots
(c) to keep their heads down
(d) to keep up a constant barrage of gunfire

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Cora suggest the men do?

2. What is the secret place where Hawkeye, Chingachgook and Uncas take the major and the Munro girls?

3. What happens when Heywood confronts the guide?

4. How does Cooper describe the setting of the novel?

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

(see the answer key)

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