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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3: Page 37-Postscript.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is the name of the ghostly explorer that Vanderdonk says haunts the Catskills?
(a) Nicholaus Vedder.
(b) Jonathan Doolittle.
(c) Hendrick Hudson.
(d) Van Brummel.
2. Where does Rip go to live after he returns to the village?
(a) At the Union Hotel.
(b) At his daughter's house.
(c) At his son's house.
(d) At his former home.
3. When Rip starts up the mountainside and finds his joints stiff and notices that he is not feeling as athletic as usual, what does he think is the cause?
(a) He thinks that he must have walked much farther on the evening before than he first realized.
(b) He thinks that he is under a spell.
(c) He thinks that he is getting old.
(d) He thinks that sleeping on the mountainside may have given him an attack of rheumatism.
4. Who else has allegedly seen the ghostly crew of bowlers in the Catskills?
(a) Diedrich Knickerbocker.
(b) Rip Van Winkle's son.
(c) Geoffrey Crayon.
(d) Vanderdonk's father.
5. What kind of relationship does Rip have with the village children?
(a) The children are frightened of Rip because he is always yelling at his son and daughter.
(b) He is a favorite of theirs because he plays with them and tells stories.
(c) He is a favorite of theirs because he steals apples from a nearby orchard for them.
(d) The children are frightened of Rip because of his habit of talking to himself.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is Diedrich Knickerbocker's profession?
2. When Rip is tired from hunting, he lies down on a knoll. What is he lying on?
3. When, on page 37, Rip meets "a knowing, self-important old gentleman, in a sharp cocked hat," what is the reader meant to infer from the description of the hat?
4. On page 30, the reader learns that Rip is "obsequious" and his wife is a "termagant." What can accurately be said about their relationship?
5. What are the "flagons" that the men on the mountainside have (34)?
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