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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Cora suggest the men do?
(a) Turn the women over to the Iroquois.
(b) Wait until dark to slip away.
(c) Leave them in the cave and go by river to seek help.
(d) Build a big signal fire.

2. What happens to the treacherous guide?
(a) Uncas gets him with an arrow.
(b) He escapes without injury.
(c) He is wounded but not caught.
(d) Hawkeye kills him.

3. What is the purpose of Fort Henry and Fort Edward?
(a) decoys to fool the advancing French army
(b) coach stations for British travelers
(c) defense against the invading French
(d) way stations for British soldiers headed for the front

4. What interrupts David Gamut's song in the cave?
(a) a rockslide outside the cave
(b) a sound that no one can identify.
(c) Hawkeye tells him to be quiet
(d) the horses splashing in the pool

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who in the group does not sleep in the cave that night?

3. What do they conclude has frightened the horses?

4. What do Heywood and his party not realize?

5. After the men leave, what do Cora and Alice do?

(see the answer key)

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