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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the time period of the story?
(a) 1789.
(b) 1701.
(c) 1889.
(d) 1776.

2. Who lends Ichabod a horse on the night of the Van Tassel event?
(a) A student's mother.
(b) A neighboring farmer.
(c) Katrina.
(d) A soldier.

3. In what war does the Headless Horseman fight?
(a) The Civil War.
(b) The French and Indian War.
(c) The Revoluntionary War.
(d) World War I.

4. 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.

5. What is the name of Brom Bones's horse?
(a) Midnight.
(b) Tiger.
(c) Gunpowder.
(d) Daredevil.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is one thing Brom Bones does to Ichabod to try to get him to stop seeking Katrina's hand in marriage?

3. What is Ichabod's focus from the moment he visits the Van Tassel's home?

4. What season is it in Sleepy Hollow the night of the Van Tassel event?

5. What is the narrator doing the day he happens upon Sleepy Hollow?

Short Essay Questions

1. When the speaker says, "authentic historians of those parts, who have been careful in collecting and collating the floating facts concerning this spectre...", whom are the authentic historians?

2. Why did some women in the community consider Ichabod a "good catch"?

3. What is the irony of the farmer's claim that Ichabod was alive and was judging others?

4. Why does the narrator refer to Ichabod's desire to win Katrina's hand in marriage a "holy" quest?

5. What does the author imply by using the allusion of the lion and the lamb?

6. What is revealed when Ichabod takes notice of the food selections before acknowledging Katrina?

7. What is the point of Gunpowder's frequent stops, starts, and turns to the race Ichabod has with the Headless Horseman?

8. What is the purpose of Brom Bones sharing his story of racing against the Headless Horseman?

9. Why is it important that the reader knows the action part of the tale takes place thirty years previous to the time of the telling of the story?

10. What is unusual about how the characters are introduced in this story versus other short stories and is it effective?

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