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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Leaving the safety of the thicket, what do they hear?
(a) deer
(b) bears
(c) horses
(d) men

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

4. What does Heyward do with the wounded David Gamut?
(a) knocks him out to keep him quiet
(b) cuts the arrow out of his leg
(c) moves him to the back of the cave
(d) ties a gag over his mouth to conceal his groans

5. Who is the person the Huron immediately suspect killed their comrade?
(a) Uncas
(b) Le Longue Carribine
(c) Chingachgook
(d) Duncan Heywood

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Hawkeye's problem during the battle?

2. Why is Heyward convinced not to pursue Magua?

3. What do they conclude has frightened the horses?

4. What happens as the Huron see one of their group fall dead?

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

(see the answer key)

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