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Who created Hawkeye and Chingachgook?
Correct Answer:
James Fenimore Cooper
Explanation:
These two frontier figures were created by James Fenimore Cooper. Hawkeye, whose real name is Natty Bumppo, and his Mohican companion Chingachgook appear in Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales, most famously in The Last of the Mohicans. Cooper used these characters to explore life on the American frontier and the tensions between settlers and Native Americans during that era. The other writers listed—Melville, Hawthorne, and Twain—are known for different works (Moby-Dick; The Scarlet Letter; Tom Sawyer/Huckleberry Finn) and did not create Hawkeye or Chingachgook.

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