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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. Who is the author of "Rip Van Winkle"?
(a) James Fenimore Cooper.
(b) Diedrich Knickerbocker.
(c) Washington Irving.
(d) Geoffrey Crayon.

2. When Rip realizes that his house has been abandoned, where is the next place he goes?
(a) The village inn.
(b) The parsonage.
(c) His in-laws' house.
(d) The village school.

3. Where does Rip spend time with his friends?
(a) On a bench outside the village inn.
(b) Inside the bar of a local hotel.
(c) Hunting in the woods.
(d) Fishing in the Hudson River.

4. What evidence does the frame narrator give that the main story's narrator is still well-liked?
(a) There is a children's rope-skipping rhyme about him.
(b) His picture is stamped onto new year's cakes.
(c) There is a street in New York named after him.
(d) His portrait is hung in many local schools.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who else has allegedly seen the ghostly crew of bowlers in the Catskills?

2. Where does Rip go to live after he returns to the village?

3. What causes Rip to recognize Judith Gardenier?

4. When Rip is finally identified and tells his story, what is the reaction of the villagers?

5. What do Rip and the stranger climb up on their way up the mountainside?

(see the answer key)

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