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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Heyward reprimand the Psalmist?
(a) for not being dressed properly
(b) for trying to join their group
(c) for making too much noise
(d) for talking with the Indian scout

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

3. What does Uncas take to ward off wolves?
(a) a firebrand
(b) his tomakawk
(c) Hawkeye's rifle
(d) several large stones

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

5. How does Magua know the girls' father?
(a) He was once captured by their father.
(b) He joined the Mohawks and served under their father.
(c) He became a slave of their father.
(d) He joined the Delaware and got access to their father.

6. What do Cora and Alice believe while in captivity?
(a) that they will become slaves
(b) that they will be forced to marry an Indian
(c) that rescue will come
(d) that they will be scalped

7. What does Magua want Cora to do after becoming his wife?
(a) bake his bread and tuck him in at night
(b) bear him many daughters to sell
(c) renounce her father
(d) draw his water, hoe his corn, and cook his venison

8. After Magua gets away for a second time, what happens to the dead Hurons?
(a) They are scalped.
(b) They are thrown into the river.
(c) They are piled up and burned.
(d) They are chopped into pieces.

9. When does the group prepare to move away from the blockhouse?
(a) two days later
(b) just before dawn
(c) at high noon
(d) when the moon is high

10. What causes the Huron to leave the area of the blockhouse?
(a) a bad smell
(b) a mass grave
(c) a large bear
(d) the bitter water

11. Who spots the four hiding in the back of the cave?
(a) Hawkeye who returns unexpectedly
(b) Uncas who has doubled back
(c) an Iroquois squaw
(d) Magua, also called Renard

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

13. What encourages the searchers?
(a) a trail of coins dropped by someone
(b) a place where Alice stopped to rest
(c) a note dropped by Cora
(d) a trail left by Cora and Magua

14. What is Magua's objection to the surrender treaty?
(a) no scalps have been taken
(b) no fires are set
(c) no hostages are taken
(d) no money changed hands

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who prevents Cora from being scalped?

2. Who does Maj. Heyward elect to lead him and the young Munro women to Fort Henry?

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

4. Who is invited to dinner at the French camp under a flag of truce?

5. Who discovers them?

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