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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the author consider to be a quest for Ichabod?
(a) Winning the right to sing in front of the church.
(b) Breaking the school house's cabin.
(c) Defeating the Headless Horseman.
(d) Winning Katrina's hand in marriage.

3. According to the narrator, this region of Sleepy Hollow "breathed forth" what kind of atmosphere?
(a) Humor.
(b) Historic.
(c) Dreams and fancies.
(d) Grave.

4. What does Brom's horse say about him?
(a) He is mischievous.
(b) He is Satan.
(c) He is a devil.
(d) He takes chances.

5. What does Ichabod hope to gain from Katrina?
(a) Marriage and limitless food.
(b) Marriage and wealth.
(c) Marriage and lots of children.
(d) Marriage and a new home.

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

7. What do Brom Bones and his boys do to the school house furniture?
(a) Sell it.
(b) Burn it.
(c) Take it out of the school.
(d) Move it around.

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

9. Whom does Ichabod hang out with when not in class?
(a) The blacksmith.
(b) The preacher.
(c) The milkman.
(d) His older boy students.

10. The disclaimer at the beginning of the tales state the papers belonged to who?
(a) Diedrech Knickerbocker.
(b) Brom Bones.
(c) Ichabod Crane.
(d) Katrina Van Tassel.

11. Who is the woman of interest in this tale?
(a) Dutch wife.
(b) Katrina Van Tassel.
(c) Kathy Crane.
(d) Emily Shoemaker.

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

13. What is Ichabod invited to do at the Van Tassel's home?
(a) Sing.
(b) Come to a party.
(c) Tutor Katrina.
(d) Dance.

14. Where must the Headless Horseman return each day?
(a) To his mother's home.
(b) To his horse.
(c) To his grave in the cemetery.
(d) To the place of his death.

15. Where does the Horseman stop pursuits?
(a) The bridge.
(b) The cemetery.
(c) The graveyard.
(d) The churchyard.

Short Answer Questions

1. Van Brunt is known in Sleepy Hollow for being what?

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

3. In what war does the Headless Horseman fight?

4. What is Ichabod's real love?

5. What other topic does Ichabod show great interest in learning?

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