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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 2: Pages 33-36.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Rip is tired from hunting, he lies down on a knoll. What is he lying on?
(a) A rounded depression.
(b) A small hill.
(c) A fallen tree.
(d) A flat spot.

2. On page 30, the reader is told that Rip has an "insuperable aversion to all kinds of profitable labour." What does this mean is true about him?
(a) He hates working hard for his own material comfort and financial security.
(b) He is eager to work at anything that will help himself, but he does not like to help others.
(c) He is simply lazy.
(d) He is physically unable to do heavy labor.

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

4. On his way home from the mountains, what does Rip suddenly realize about his own appearance?
(a) His beard has grown a foot longer.
(b) His clothing is strangely worn and tattered.
(c) He has a deep sunburn.
(d) His face is covered with wrinkles.

5. Who is "Dame" Van Winkle?
(a) Rip's wife.
(b) Rip's sister.
(c) Rip's mother.
(d) Rip's daughter.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What kind of relationship does Rip have with the village children?

3. What is the stranger on the mountainside carrying?

4. 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?

5. What is Rip's first worry when he wakes up on the mountainside in the morning?

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