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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 causes Rip to finally start for home after he realizes that he will not be able to find the strange men again?
(a) He wants to tell his wife about his adventure.
(b) He is too frightened to stay on the mountain.
(c) He hopes that Wolf might have returned home.
(d) He is hungry.

2. Under what pseudonym was "Rip Van Winkle" published?
(a) Geoffrey Crayon.
(b) Washington Irving.
(c) James Fenimore Cooper.
(d) Diedrich Knickerbocker.

3. When on page 31, the narrator refers to Rip's wife's nagging as a "torrent of household eloquence," what tone is created?
(a) Ironic.
(b) Nostalgic.
(c) Maudlin.
(d) Farcical.

4. Everything that happens to Rip on the morning after he meets the strangers on the mountain makes him feel "perplexities" (36). What does this mean that is Rip feeling?
(a) Sad.
(b) Confused.
(c) Surprised.
(d) Angry.

5. On page 35, Rip is "tempted to repeat the draught." How is the word "draught" pronounced?
(a) Rhymes with "hot."
(b) Rhymes with "loft."
(c) Rhymes with "raft."
(d) Rhymes with "out."

Short Answer Questions

1. When Rip realizes that his house has been abandoned, where is the next place he goes?

2. Rip is surprised by the "singularity" of the stranger's appearance (36). What kind of appearance is this?

3. When Rip finds the path that he and the strange man took on the night before, what surprising change has happened?

4. How might Rip's house be described?

5. What does Rip think has changed about the people of the village?

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