View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Ichabod do to the students the evening of the Van Tassel event?
(a) He tutors them.
(b) He disciplines them.
(c) He sends his students home early.
(d) He gives them extra homework.

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

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

5. Which character's home is "bursting forth with the treasures of the farm"?
(a) Smith.
(b) Van Tassel's.
(c) Brom's.
(d) Ichabod's.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Brom Bones tell the other men he does with the Headless Horseman?

2. What does Brom's horse say about him?

3. How does Brom Bones want to settle the dispute for Katrina's hand in marriage?

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

5. What is growing near the schoolhouse?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the descendants of Sleepy Hollow play into the story's atmosphere and mood?

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

3. Why did the church provide a perfect setting for the Headless Horseman stories?

4. Why is the place called Tarry Town?

5. Why does the narrator go into details about how Sleepy Hollow came to be so mythical?

6. What does the narrator mean when he says the region "breathed forth an atmosphere of dreams and fancies."

7. How does Irving contradict himself and tease the reader?

8. How is the school's location symbolic of Ichabod's relationship with those in Sleepy Hollow?

9. How does finding the papers amongst a dead man establish tone?

10. What examples of Ichabod's character show him as self serving and vain?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 645 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample