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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What advice does Hawkeye give as they battle the Iroquois?
(a) to keep up a constant barrage of gunfire
(b) not to shoot till they can see the whites of their eyes
(c) to keep their heads down
(d) to conserve their shots

4. What is the joyful event at the fort?
(a) a square dance
(b) a birthday party for the girls' ather
(c) the reunion of the girls with their father
(d) celebration for defeating the French

5. What happens to the evacuees from Ft. Henry?
(a) 2000 Indians attack them
(b) they get into quicksand
(c) the women and children fall behand
(d) the French open fire

Short Answer Questions

1. How many people march out of Ft. Henry?

2. At what time does Hawkeye wake everyone to resume their trip to Ft. Henry?

3. What saves them from the Frenchman who discovers them?

4. What do Heywood and his party not realize?

5. What happens to Cora during the fight?

Short Essay Questions

1. Relate how Chingachgook explains why the Mohicans were finally unable to beat back the Iroquois.

2. What are the arguments Heyward uses to try and get Magua to side with the captives?

3. What does Col. Munro say after he reads the letter intercepted from Gen. Webb and arranges the surrender with the French general?

4. What does Col. Munro try to determine about Heyward's preference for Alice as a future wife?

5. After leaving in the opposite direction of the Iroquois, what does the reader learn about Hawkeye?

6. What happens to prevent the torture of the captives?

7. What news is in the letter Hawkeye delivers to Gen. Munro?

8. Explain how David Gamut is allowed to accompany Heyward, Alice, and Cora on the trip to Ft. Henry.

9. What is the evidence that Cora and Alice have survived?

10. What does Cora manage to convince the men to do?

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