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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Cooper describe the setting of the novel?
(a) the bloody area
(b) the land that time forgot
(c) the back of beyond
(d) the foothills of the wilderness

3. What is one of the rewards Heyward promises Renard if he helps them?
(a) a river of firewater
(b) Cora as his wife
(c) a trip to England
(d) ten horses

4. What request does Heyward make of Hawkeye, Chingachgook, and Uncas?
(a) to guide them to Ft. Henry
(b) to find disguises for the women
(c) to hunt down the Iroquois
(d) to give them something to eat

5. What is the message for Ft. Henry?
(a) no troops are coming from Ft. Edward
(b) troops from Ft. Edward will arrive by nightfall
(c) a batallion is coming from the north
(d) the French have surrendered

6. Who is the man of European stock waiting a few miles westward of Heyward and the Munro girls?
(a) Prince Henry
(b) Lance Corporal Pettigrew
(c) Hawkeye
(d) Col. Munro

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

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

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

10. Who is the lone man making his way to the outskirts of the French camp?
(a) Duncan Heywood
(b) General Montcalm
(c) Hawkeye
(d) Magua

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

12. Who does Uncas say are hiding in the woods?
(a) Blackfeet
(b) Sioux
(c) Mohicans
(d) Iroquois

13. Who are the men out looking for the group?
(a) Magua and other Hurons
(b) Delaware from Ft. Edward
(c) soldiers from Ft. Henry
(d) Chingachgooks other son

14. What is Hawkeye's problem during the battle?
(a) He sprains his ankle.
(b) He runs out of ammunition.
(c) He loses his eyeglasses.
(d) He slips on a wet rock.

15. Who immediately join in the fight with the Hurons?
(a) Uncas and Chingachgook
(b) Heywood and Gamut
(c) two Delaware scouts
(d) Alice and Cora

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the suggestion in the letter from Gen. Webb?

2. What do they use over the entrance to the back of the cave?

3. Who spots the four hiding in the back of the cave?

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

5. Who is the man standing outside across the water?

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