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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 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?
(a) He thinks that he is getting old.
(b) He thinks that he is under a spell.
(c) He thinks that he must have walked much farther on the evening before than he first realized.
(d) He thinks that sleeping on the mountainside may have given him an attack of rheumatism.

2. What is Rip's son's name?
(a) John.
(b) Dutch.
(c) Rip.
(d) Peter.

3. On page 29, the mountains are said to be "lording it over the surrounding country." This is an example of which literary technique?
(a) Personification.
(b) Synechdoche.
(c) Hyperbole.
(d) Onomatopoeia.

4. How does Wolf react to the stranger on the mountainside?
(a) He runs away into the woods.
(b) He growls at him.
(c) He tries to attack the man.
(d) He wags his tail and gives an excited bark.

5. What is Diedrich Knickerbocker's profession?
(a) Governor.
(b) Farmer.
(c) Historian.
(d) Writer of novels.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When on page 31, the narrator refers to Rip's wife's nagging as a "torrent of household eloquence," what tone is created?

3. What causes Rip to finally start for home after he realizes that he will not be able to find the strange men again?

4. On page 29, the narrator says that a person might have "descried" the smoke from the village. What does this mean a person might have done?

5. On page 33, Rip complies with the stranger's request with "his usual alacrity." How does Rip comply?

(see the answer key)

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