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

2. What is one force greater than the Devil that was to be feared?
(a) Woman.
(b) Brom Bones.
(c) Satan.
(d) Animals.

3. What is the name of the horse Ichabod is given to ride?
(a) Gunpowder.
(b) Gracie.
(c) Midnight.
(d) Buckshot.

4. How does Ichabod endear himself to mothers?
(a) By singing to their children.
(b) By disciplining their children.
(c) By tending to their small children.
(d) By teaching their children.

5. Neighbors usually dismiss the antics and disturbances of whom?
(a) Katrina Van Tassel.
(b) Students.
(c) Ichabod Crane.
(d) Brom Van Brunt.

Short Answer Questions

1. Many men are contenders for Katrina's hand. Which of the following is one of them?

2. What is Ichabod's real love?

3. What is impressive about the Van Tassel's home?

4. What is growing near the schoolhouse?

5. According to the narrator, this region of Sleepy Hollow "breathed forth" what kind of atmosphere?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does the narrator compare Katrina Van Tassel to food?

3. Why is Ichabod's appetite for the occult a necessary part of the plot?

4. In what ways does Washington Irving lend credibility to his story?

5. What was strange about how Ichabod distributed discipline in his school?

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

7. 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?

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. 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?

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

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