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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. When Rip sees a dog that looks like Wolf outside of his old house, how does the dog behave?
(a) It jumps up and licks his face.
(b) It snarls at him and then walks away.
(c) It seems to not be able to see him.
(d) It quivers in fear.

2. What does Rip keep hearing as he and the stranger climb up the mountainside?
(a) Something that sounds like thunder.
(b) A deep, booming laugh.
(c) The roar of a waterfall.
(d) Something that sounds like stampeding animals.

3. What does Rip do with most of his time in his elder years?
(a) Becomes very active in local politics.
(b) Becomes an author of tales about the Catskills.
(c) Helps his daughter run her farm.
(d) Sits in front of the Union Hotel retelling his story.

4. What is Rip's dog's name?
(a) Wolf.
(b) Dog.
(c) Bear.
(d) Dutch.

5. When Rip wakes in the morning on the mountainside, what does he think has happened to his gun?
(a) He thinks that he might have dropped it in the woods.
(b) He thinks that the strange men have stolen it.
(c) He thinks that he must have left it in the amphitheater.
(d) He thinks that the strange men are playing some kind of joke.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In the epigraph from Cartwright's play, to whom does the speaker swear that he will be honest?

3. On page 29, the setting sun causes something to light up and glow "like a crown of glory." This is an example of what literary technique?

4. What happens to Rip as a result of drinking the strangers' liquor?

5. 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?

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