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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 is the Delaware chief's response when Magua offers to take Cora off his hands?
(a) He pretends he does not understand.
(b) He laughs and says no.
(c) He asks for a high price.
(d) He says that Cora is welcome.

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

3. Where do they discover the footprints of women?
(a) in one small clearing
(b) in a concealed trail
(c) near a stream where they drank
(d) deep in the worst thicket

4. What is the symbolism of the attack on the red painted tree?
(a) the elevation of a new chief
(b) a declaration of war
(c) the beginning of summer
(d) a period of celebration

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the man Heywood sees approaching the Huron camp?

2. Who does Magua choose when Hawkeye offers his life for Cora?

3. Why do the Huron allow David to come and go?

4. How do Hawkeye and Uncas leave David in the lodge?

5. Who do the young men bring to the Delaware camp meeting?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Hawkeye, disguised as the bear, propose to do to Uncas?

2. Why does Magua take Alice and not Cora when he leaves the Delaware village?

3. What happens as they cross the lake in a canoe?

4. What is the near confrontation between Magua and Chingachgook?

5. Why does following the horses end in disappointment for the hunters?

6. What causes great excitement and consternation in the Delaware camp?

7. Tell about the Hurons' response to the Delaware declaration of war.

8. How do the men locate the trail of the Iroquois in hopes of finding Cora and Alice?

9. Who are the condemned men being held by the Huron?

10. How do the braves discover that Uncas is gone?

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