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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What choice does Magua give Cora?
(a) his wigwam or his knife
(b) being scalped dead or alive
(c) a knife in the heart or being tossed off the cliff
(d) the life of Alice if she agrees to marry him

2. Who does Magua say is responsible for tying him up?
(a) Chingachgook
(b) Le Longue Carabine
(c) Heywood
(d) David

3. What might have kept a Huron around after his tribe departed?
(a) a serious wound
(b) plunder
(c) Hawkeye
(d) weapons

4. Where is Cora while the war plans proceed?
(a) riding behind Magua
(b) tied to a tree
(c) in a cave guarded by Huron
(d) back in the Huron village

5. What does David report?
(a) that the girls are both sick
(b) that the girls are unspoiled
(c) that the girls are tied to a tree
(d) that the Huron quarrel over the girls

6. What do they suspect about the Oneida?
(a) that he was a French scout
(b) that the tribe will follow
(c) that he was a member of a small gang
(d) that he knew where the Iroquois had gone

7. What startles David in the hut?
(a) when the hut catches fire
(b) when Uncas is thrown in
(c) when Reed that Bends is thrown in
(d) when the bear speaks

8. How do the men leave the fort the next morning?
(a) casually
(b) loudly
(c) carefully
(d) joyfully

9. Where do the Huron think Alice, Heyward, and Hawkeye are?
(a) back at the fort
(b) the Delaware camp
(c) off looking for Cora
(d) out on the lake

10. What does Chingachgook declare after Uncas is buried?
(a) that the light has gone out
(b) that the time has come
(c) that everything will be all right
(d) that he is alone

11. How do they know their passage across the lake is discovered?
(a) the sound of drums
(b) a white flag flying
(c) a bullet fired and a shrill yell
(d) a clamor of whooping on an island

12. What keeps the young man safe in the village even though he is a captive.
(a) He gives his word he will not leave.
(b) He holds onto a painted pole.
(c) He challenges all takers to fight.
(d) He is tied to one of the warriors.

13. Where does Uncas locate a sign of the group they are pursuing?
(a) under an overhang
(b) in a thicket
(c) beside a deer trail
(d) near a brook

14. What are they careful about as they go to the canoes to cross the lake?
(a) to preten to be going fishing
(b) to leave no trail
(c) to watch for Oneida
(d) to listen for the French

15. How do Uncas and Chingachgook behave after the threat is gone?
(a) warning the others to be quiet
(b) playfully talking together
(c) serious and speaking in whispers
(d) standing ready for another intruder

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wins the contest?

2. Who does Hawkeye confess to killing?

3. Why do some of the Huron men creep into the lodge?

4. Who sings over the grave of Cora?

5. What evidence do they keep finding that tells them they are on the right trail?

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