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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As what do the hunters identify Heywood's guide?
(a) a Mohawk
(b) a Sioux
(c) a Mohican
(d) a Huron

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

3. Who is the Indian waiting with the European?
(a) Mangua
(b) Hiawatha
(c) Chingachgook
(d) Uncas

4. How is Heyward nearly wounded?
(a) by a knife in hand to hand combat
(b) by a glancing arrow
(c) by a tomahawk
(d) by a bullet near his head

5. Who comes across the Indian scout and the hunter?
(a) the Marquis of Montcalm
(b) the Iroquois
(c) the Siminole
(d) the girls and Maj. Heyward

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does Heyward reprimand the Psalmist?

3. Who is at war as the novel begins?

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

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

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