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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What request does Heyward make of Hawkeye, Chingachgook, and Uncas?

2. How do Hawkeye, Uncas, and Chingachgook leave to find help?

3. What is the secret place where Hawkeye, Chingachgook and Uncas take the major and the Munro girls?

4. What does Heywood demand of Renard?

5. Who is at war as the novel begins?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Explain why Hawkeye and Chingachgook dissuade Heyward from going after the wounded Magua.

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

6. What plan does Magua have for the group of captives after Cora rejects his advances?

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

8. Explain what the Iroquois are really after.

9. What do the French do with the captured Hawkeye?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay about the use of the English language in THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS. Discuss the formality of the language, giving examples from the novel. How does the language affect the reading of the novel?

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay about historical fiction. Explain how including actual historical facts in a fiction story makes the tale more realistic. Discuss how Cooper's use of real tribal names enhances his story of THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS. What is the importance of the French and Indian War to the story?

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay about the effects of public humiliation. Reference Magua's hatred for Col. Munro who had him publicly flogged. Explain how the hatred was not born from the flogging but from the public way in which it was administered. Relate the theme to how you would feel by being humiliated in front of other people.

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