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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Ichabod's imagination, what does natural sights and sounds become as he walked home at night?
(a) Animals.
(b) Pranksters.
(c) His imagination.
(d) Ghosts and phantasms.

2. What other area does Ichabod instruct students?
(a) Geography.
(b) Fishing.
(c) Map making.
(d) Music.

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

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

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

6. How does the author describe Brom Van Brunt?
(a) Curly blonde hair and skinny shoulders.
(b) Bald and medium build.
(c) Curly dark hair and broad shoulders.
(d) Straight hair and narrow shoulders.

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

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

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

10. What does Ichabod take a long time doing before going to the Van Tassel event?
(a) He takes great care in his appearance.
(b) He washes his horse.
(c) He cuts his hair.
(d) He eats a big meal.

11. What is one force greater than the Devil that was to be feared?
(a) Animals.
(b) Woman.
(c) Brom Bones.
(d) Satan.

12. Many men are contenders for Katrina's hand. Which of the following is one of them?
(a) Brom Van Brunt.
(b) A doctor.
(c) A farmer.
(d) Headless Horseman.

13. What is the name of the horse Ichabod is given to ride?
(a) Midnight.
(b) Buckshot.
(c) Gunpowder.
(d) Gracie.

14. Several stories speak of sightings and abduction of whom?
(a) Major Andre.
(b) Katrina.
(c) A wounded soldier.
(d) Brom Bones.

15. How does Brom Bones want to settle the dispute for Katrina's hand in marriage?
(a) With a duel.
(b) With a sword fight.
(c) With brute force.
(d) With a hunting contest.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Ichabod hope to gain from Katrina?

3. What does the Headless Horseman search for in the village each day?

4. What does Ichabod's horse do when he tries to cross the stream's bridge?

5. Which character's home is "bursting forth with the treasures of the farm"?

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