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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. How do Hawkeye, Uncas, and Chingachgook leave to find help?
(a) Uncas alone and Hawkeye and Chingachgook together
(b) floating down the river
(c) headed first in the wrong direction to confuse the Iroquois
(d) separately, walking along the banks of the river

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

3. What saves them from the Frenchman who discovers them?
(a) Cora's perfect French
(b) Heyward's French accent
(c) Chingashgook's pidgin French
(d) Alice's ragged skirts

4. Why does Magua hate Cora's father?
(a) He made Magua do woman's work in the fort.
(b) He made Magua eat off the floor.
(c) He had Magua whipped publicly for drunkenness.
(d) He killed Magua's Indian wife.

5. What do they place in front of the covering to the back of the cave?
(a) tree branches
(b) bird nests
(c) large rocks
(d) the horses

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Hawkeye's problem during the battle?

2. Who does Uncas say are hiding in the woods?

3. What does Hawkeye recall at a pond?

4. How does Magua know the girls' father?

5. Four days after Heywood and the girls enter Fort Henry, who is led to the fort?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe what happens when a warrior takes a baby as ransom for a woman's shawl.

2. What do they find as they near Fort Henry?

3. Describe the time and events during which the story begins.

4. After Hawkeye, Chingachgook, and Uncas leave to find help, what happens back near the cave?

5. Explain what the Iroquois are really after.

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

7. Describe the conflict between Gen. Montcalm and Le Renard.

8. Discuss briefly the noise that is heard outside the cave.

9. How do Heyward, Hawkeye, Uncas, and Chingachgook attempt to capture Magua after they learn that he has betrayed Heyward and the girls?

10. What are some of the problems the group faces as they battle the Iroquois?

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