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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does a visiting farmer bring news of years later, after Ichabod's disappearance from Sleepy Hollow?
(a) That Ichabod plans to return to Sleepy Hollow.
(b) That Ichabod Crane is alive and well.
(c) That Ichabod lives in a neighboring town.
(d) That Ichabod's body has been found.

2. Where does the women in white haunt?
(a) Raven Rock.
(b) The church.
(c) The cemetery.
(d) The great tree.

3. What type of man is Ichabod Crane?
(a) Patient.
(b) Kind.
(c) Vain.
(d) Humble.

4. To those in Sleepy Hollow, Brom Van Burnt is considered to be a ______.
(a) Idiot.
(b) Thief.
(c) Hero.
(d) Villian.

5. What does the narrator compare Ichabod's pliability and perseverance to?
(a) A thick rope.
(b) A wilting flower.
(c) A birch tree.
(d) A supple jack.

6. Under what cover does Ichabod pursue Katrina?
(a) As a gossiper.
(b) As a visiting farmer.
(c) As a lover of food.
(d) As her music teacher.

7. Brom Bones is noted for preferring what kind of animals?
(a) Vicious.
(b) Cuddly.
(c) Fun.
(d) Loving.

8. After much discussion, what do many of the townspeople believe?
(a) That Ichabod leaves under a cloak of darkness.
(b) That Ichabod runs out of town.
(c) Ichabod has been carried off by the Galloping Headless Horseman.
(d) That Ichabod vanishes into thin air.

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

10. Who is missing the day after the Van Tassel's party?
(a) Brom.
(b) Gundpowder.
(c) Ichabod.
(d) The Headless Horseman.

11. Who does Katrina marry?
(a) A soldier.
(b) A visiting farmer.
(c) Brom.
(d) Van Ripper.

12. When Ichabod reaches the road to Sleepy Hollow, what does Gunpowder do?
(a) Resist and buck.
(b) Resist and whine.
(c) Resist and made another turn.
(d) Resist and stop.

13. What is Gunpowder found doing the day after the Van Tassel's party?
(a) Whining.
(b) Galloping.
(c) Sleeping.
(d) Grazing.

14. According to Brom, the Headless Horseman vanishes in what manner?
(a) In a thunderstorm.
(b) In a flash of fire.
(c) In a circle of light.
(d) In a bolt of lightening.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the narrator say lies in Gunpowder's good eye?

3. When is the story published?

4. What is so tempting about the Van Tassel's farm to Ichabod?

5. What does the narrator compare Ichabod's students' voices at the schoolhouse to?

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