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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Baltus Van Tassel do to support his family?

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

3. What does the author consider to be a quest for Ichabod?

4. Which of the following do some residents believe bewitched the area?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. In what ways is Ichabod Crane an anti-hero?

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

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

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

5. What is the purpose of describing Tarry Town before actually talking about Sleepy Hollow where the story takes place?

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

7. Why is the place called Tarry Town?

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

9. Why does the narrator refer to Ichabod as a "gawky bird" when seated upon Gunpowder?

10. Why is Sleepy Hollow considered untouched by time?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Determine the antagonist in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and defend your opinion with details from the text.

Essay Topic 2

How does the author set the story up so that the reader believes anything can happen? How does he toy with the reader? What phrases and word choices does he use to convey the mystic of the story?

Essay Topic 3

In The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, the narrator describes Ichabod as a scarecrow. At the end of the story, a smashed pumpkin is found, but Ichabod has vanished. What is the significance of using the scarecrow and pumpkin for Ichabod? Why did the author want to convey about Ichabod's character?

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