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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Ichabod's real love?
(a) Katrina.
(b) Eating.
(c) Hunting.
(d) Singing.

2. What is Ichabod's greatest fear of encountering when walking home at night?
(a) The Headless Horseman.
(b) The rebels.
(c) Soldiers.
(d) Thieves.

3. What is the narrator doing the day he happens upon Sleepy Hollow?
(a) Fishing.
(b) Hunting.
(c) Walking.
(d) Hiking.

4. How many years have passed between the actual story and the narrator's telling of it?
(a) Thirty years.
(b) Five years.
(c) Sixteen years.
(d) Twenty years.

5. Who does Katrina whirl around and dance with?
(a) A teenager.
(b) Brom.
(c) Ichabod.
(d) Her father.

6. What do Brom Bones and Ichabod Crane have in common?
(a) They both want to marry Katrina.
(b) They both want to buy a house.
(c) They both want to defeat the Headless Horseman.
(d) They both hunt.

7. How does Ichabod endear himself to mothers?
(a) By teaching their children.
(b) By tending to their small children.
(c) By singing to their children.
(d) By disciplining their children.

8. What is Ichabod's favorite thing to do?
(a) Sing.
(b) Eat.
(c) Dance.
(d) Read.

9. What does the Headless Horseman search for in the village each day?
(a) His horse.
(b) His gun.
(c) His wife.
(d) His head.

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

11. What does Ichabod Crane do for a living?
(a) He's a preacher.
(b) He's a school teacher.
(c) He's a mechanic.
(d) He's a doctor.

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

13. What does Ichabod use often to discipline students?
(a) Birch switches.
(b) A rod.
(c) A belt.
(d) A wooden paddle.

14. What does Ichabod feast his eyes on first when he arrives at the Van Tassel's home?
(a) Mrs. Van Tassel.
(b) The food.
(c) Katrina.
(d) Brom.

15. Which of the following do some residents believe bewitched the area?
(a) A French ghost.
(b) A German doctor.
(c) A sorcerer.
(d) A witch.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The author says that Van Brunt is always ready for what?

3. What does the narrator believe about Sleepy Hollow's people and their customs?

4. What is the time period of the story?

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

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