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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 does the Headless Horseman search for in the village each day?
(a) His head.
(b) His wife.
(c) His horse.
(d) His gun.
2. What does the villagers call Van Brunt?
(a) Burly Van Brunt.
(b) Brom Bones.
(c) Heavy hitter.
(d) Brom Brom.
3. Which of his students does Ichabod discriminately apply discipline?
(a) The weak children.
(b) The strong children.
(c) The children who don't bring an apple.
(d) The unmotivated students.
4. What other name is The Headless Horseman called?
(a) Galloping Hessian.
(b) Headless Rider.
(c) Headless Harry.
(d) Galloping Giant.
5. Who lends Ichabod a horse on the night of the Van Tassel event?
(a) Katrina.
(b) A soldier.
(c) A neighboring farmer.
(d) A student's mother.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Ichabod Crane do for a living?
2. What do Brom Bones and his boys do to the school house furniture?
3. What is the one thing that causes Ichabod's interest to become a "holy" cause?
4. What is growing near the schoolhouse?
5. What are the boys from Sleepy Hollow called?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why is it ironic that Ichabod's horse is named Gunpowder?
2. Why does the narrator go into details about how Sleepy Hollow came to be so mythical?
3. Why does the narrator refer to Ichabod's desire to win Katrina's hand in marriage a "holy" quest?
4. What does Ichabod's clothing blowing loosely around him symbolize?
5. Why does the narrator compare woman to a force greater than the Devil?
6. What is the irony of the farmer's claim that Ichabod was alive and was judging others?
7. What examples of Ichabod's character show him as self serving and vain?
8. Why does the narrator call Van Tassel's estate a "castle"?
9. How does Irving contradict himself and tease the reader?
10. What is the purpose of the narrator?
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