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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 horse known to do when around a horse of the opposite sex?
(a) Eat.
(b) Fall asleep.
(c) Quickly discharge.
(d) Gallop slowly.

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

3. How many years have passed between the actual story and the narrator's telling of it?
(a) Thirty years.
(b) Five years.
(c) Sixteen years.
(d) Twenty years.

4. How old is Katrina Van Tassel?
(a) 18.
(b) 16.
(c) 21.
(d) 30.

5. Which character values Katrina more than a pipe?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Brom.
(c) Ichabod.
(d) Her father.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author refer to Van Tassel's home as?

2. What does Ichabod use often to discipline students?

3. According to the legend, how does the Headless Horseman lose his head?

4. What do Brom Bones and Ichabod Crane have in common?

5. What is the name of the neighboring town described after the poem at the beginning of the story?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the purpose of the narrator?

2. What is the significance of Ichabod leading others in psalms and proudly standing in church singing?

3. The narrator compares Ichabod to an anaconda which is able to ingest huge quantities without permanently altering its shape. Why else is Ichabod like a snake?

4. What is the significance of Ichabod's singing psalms to quell or calm his fears to the story's ending?

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

6. Why does the residents' ethnicity matter to the storyline?

7. How does the quatrain poem help establish the tone?

8. How is the tone the author utilizes to describe Brom's and Ichabod's attempts to win Katrina's hand in marriage comical or humorous?

9. Why does the narrator call Van Tassel's estate a "castle"?

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

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