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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What time of night does Ichabod leave the Van Tassel's?
(a) Early morning.
(b) Afternoon.
(c) Witching.
(d) Falling.

2. What does the narrator likens Brom's attempts at courting to?
(a) To the gentle caresses of a sword.
(b) To the cawing of a crow.
(c) To the gentle caresses of a bear.
(d) To the clawing of a wolverine.

3. How is Ichabod able to spread gossip?
(a) By boarding from house to house.
(b) By sending notes home with students.
(c) By sending letters.
(d) By spending time with women on Sunday.

4. What do the country people hear haunting through the village?
(a) Ichabod melodious psalms.
(b) Galloping.
(c) Howls.
(d) Screams.

5. How does the narrator describe the farmers at Van Tassel's party?
(a) Good old boys.
(b) As a leather-faced race.
(c) Handsome hunks.
(d) A group of well worn men.

6. Which demi-god does the narrator compare to Ichabod?
(a) Hermes.
(b) Hercules.
(c) Achilles.
(d) Zeus.

7. What is Katrina known to have the prettiest of in all the countryside?
(a) Foot and ankle.
(b) Face.
(c) Hands.
(d) Hair.

8. What kind of life do many townspeople believe Ichabod had?
(a) Rich.
(b) Fruitful.
(c) Easy.
(d) Hard.

9. What does Ichabod do to the horse when it behaves badly?
(a) Get off the horse.
(b) Yell at the horse.
(c) Get a new horse.
(d) Whip the horse.

10. As he and Gunpowder head home, who does Ichabod believe the rider on the dark horse alongside him to be?
(a) The Headless Horseman.
(b) Brom.
(c) A ghost.
(d) Katrina.

11. Where is Ichabod's 'realm'?
(a) His horse.
(b) The church.
(c) His schoolhouse.
(d) His farm.

12. Whose tales does Ichabod tell to the group of men at the party?
(a) Van Ripper.
(b) Washington Irving.
(c) Cotton Mather.
(d) George Washington.

13. What insect does the narrator compare Ichabod's elbows while mounted on Gunpowder?
(a) A grasshopper.
(b) An ant.
(c) A bee.
(d) A fly.

14. Which demi-god does the narrator compare Brom?
(a) Hermes.
(b) Zeus.
(c) Achilles.
(d) Hercules.

15. Who founded the area around Sleepy Hollow?
(a) The Dutch.
(b) The French.
(c) The Spanish.
(d) The British.

Short Answer Questions

1. As Ichabod moves from one farmer's family to the next, where are his possessions?

2. What success does the old farmer from New York state about Ichabod?

3. What is the real name of Tarry Town?

4. Who do the old country women believe haunt the area?

5. What type of man is Ichabod Crane?

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