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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. In the frame narrative, the reader is told that the main story's narrator gets his information from the wives of the "burghers" (28). Whose wives are these?
(a) The wives of country farmers.
(b) The wives of prominent Dutch colonists.
(c) The wives of political officials.
(d) The wives of local indigenous leaders.

2. Why does Diedrich Knickerbocker believe that the reader should accept Rip's story as true?
(a) He himself met the ghostly explorer and his crew.
(b) He himself met Rip and saw a judge verify Rip's soundness of mind.
(c) Every witness that he interviewed verified Rip's story, and he heard the same story from all of them.
(d) His own father met the ghostly explorer and his crew.

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

4. How does Irving characterize Rip's son?
(a) He is hard-working and ambitious.
(b) He is exactly like his mother.
(c) He is exactly like Rip.
(d) He is clever but lazy.

5. How does the crowd react when Rip declares his loyalty to King George?
(a) They laugh and point at Rip.
(b) They are upset and suspicious of Rip.
(c) They fall silent and watch Rip.
(d) They are puzzled and concerned for Rip.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Rip's dog's name?

2. Rip sees a "bilious" looking man in front of the Union Hotel (37). What does the man look like?

3. How does Wolf react to the stranger on the mountainside?

4. When the crowd points out Rip's son, what confusion does it cause for Rip?

5. When he is resting on the mountainside, what sound alerts Rip that someone is nearby?

(see the answer key)

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