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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. Which of his students does Ichabod discriminately apply discipline?
(a) The strong children.
(b) The children who don't bring an apple.
(c) The weak children.
(d) The unmotivated students.

2. Whom does Ichabod spend most of his evenings with and listen to regional tales of the marvelous and unexplainable?
(a) Students.
(b) Farmers.
(c) Dutch wives.
(d) Dutch husbands.

3. What does Brom Bones tell the other men he does with the Headless Horseman?
(a) Race against him on Daredevil.
(b) Stop the Horseman from taking someone's head.
(c) Fight him and escaped.
(d) Find his head for the Horseman.

4. What does Ichabod's physical features mimic?
(a) A giraffe.
(b) A dolphin.
(c) An elephant.
(d) A crane.

5. What is the one thing Katrina is known to do?
(a) Dance.
(b) Flirt.
(c) Smoke.
(d) Sing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one force greater than the Devil that was to be feared?

2. How does Brom Bones want to settle the dispute for Katrina's hand in marriage?

3. What do the men discuss immediately after the dancing at the Van Tassel party?

4. What is Van Brunt known for?

5. How does Ichabod endear himself to mothers?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was strange about how Ichabod distributed discipline in his school?

2. How does finding the papers amongst a dead man establish tone?

3. Why does the narrator call Van Tassel's estate a "castle"?

4. What is the significance of Ichabod's singing psalms to quell or calm his fears to the story's ending?

5. What is the purpose of Brom Bones sharing his story of racing against the Headless Horseman?

6. What does Ichabod's clothing blowing loosely around him symbolize?

7. Why is it ironic that Ichabod's horse is named Gunpowder?

8. What does the author imply by using the allusion of the lion and the lamb?

9. What words does the speaker use to convey that there is in fact something magical and mystical about the area? How does this word choice create the mood?

10. Why does the residents' ethnicity matter to the storyline?

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