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Level 4 The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper

1 Match the words to their meanings.

a) seige 1 destiny, end b) wigwam 2 hurt as a punishment c) fate 3 tent where an Indian lives d) torture 4 go back e) retreat 5 attack

5 2 Answer the questions. a) What news did Magua bring General Webb, the British commander at Fort Edward?

...... b) Why did the Indians think Hawkeye was killed near the waterfall?

...... c) Why did Magua want Cora to live as his wife?

...... d) What did Munro tell Heyward about Cora’s mother and her ancestors?

...... e) What did Montcalm give to Munro when Munro went to the French camp?

...... f) What did Munro agree to do at the end of his meeting with Montcalm?

...... g) How did Cora and Alice’s father and friends know that they were still alive after the massacre? What was the first clue and who found it?

...... h) How did Heyward and Hawkeye enter the Indian camp to find Alice and Uncas?

...... i) Why did the wise chief, Tamenund decide not to let Uncas be killed?

...... j) What was Uncas’s fate?

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Level 4 The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper

3 Match the two parts of the sentences.

a) Magua said Montcalm’s soldiers were 1 like a club. b) Magua ran away 2 like deer,” Uncas said. c) Hawkeye swung his rifle in the air 3 like thunder. d) “We will chase the Hurons out of the bushes 4 as numerous as the leaves on the trees. e) “Let the Mohican die,” shouted Magua in a voice 5 as fast as the wind.

4 Tick (4) True (T) or False (F). T F

a) Hawkeye called the Hurons thieves. b) Uncas was known as Bounding Deer. c) Heyward told the French soldiers that Cora and Alice were his prisoners when they met them on the way to Fort William Henry. d) Heyward really believed that there were about 20,000 soldiers in the French camp. e) Alice and Cora’s father was Irish. f) The siege of Fort William Henry lasted for a day before reinforcements came. g) Hawkeye taught them how to walk on stones and wood so that their trail would be difficult to follow. h) Cora told Tamenund not to believe Magua because he was poisoning their ears with lies. i) Magua stabbed Cora in the heart and she died. j) At the end of the story, Hawkeye told Chingachgook that he was not alone.

TOTAL SCORE 30