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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does David tell the Huron the bear is going to do to Uncas?
(a) mark him for life
(b) eat him
(c) carry him away
(d) to take the courage of the prisoner

2. What weapon does David insist he can use?
(a) a pistol
(b) a spear
(c) a sling
(d) a knife

3. How does Uncas disguise himself to escape?
(a) by putting on the bear suit
(b) by changing clothes with Hawkeye
(c) by painting his face
(d) by wearing a dress

4. What makes the work of the men so dangerous?
(a) a change in the weather
(b) Heyward and Munro
(c) foes in front and foes at the rear
(d) Indian scouts

5. Who is the man Heywood sees approaching the Huron camp?
(a) the bedraggled singer, David Gamut
(b) another Oneida
(c) a French deserter
(d) Le Renard

6. What evidence do they keep finding that tells them they are on the right trail?
(a) the silence of the forest creatures
(b) the sound of a harmonica up ahead
(c) bits of Alice's and Cora's dresses
(d) the mark of the horses

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

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

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

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

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

12. What does Heywood tell Alice?
(a) that her father is ill
(b) that her father is waiting at Fort Edward
(c) that her father refuses to let them marry
(d) that her father has given permission for them to marry

13. What happens to the boy sent to collect rifles?
(a) He is shot in the arm.
(b) He is given a hero's welcome.
(c) He is killed.
(d) He escapes any danger.

14. Where is Alice Munro?
(a) alone in the forest
(b) in the chief's teepee
(c) with the Huron women about two miles away
(d) tied to one of the braves

15. Who sings over the grave of Cora?
(a) Chingachgook
(b) Heyward
(c) David
(d) Alice

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Heywood's plan?

2. Where do they discover the footprints of women?

3. Who will go to rescue Cora during the battle?

4. How is Chingachgook disguised?

5. What is the Delaware chief's response when Magua offers to take Cora off his hands?

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