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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. After he can no longer spend time with his friends, where does Rip start going to spend time away from his home and farm?
(a) The seashore.
(b) The barn.
(c) The river.
(d) The woods.

2. How does Rip's wife treat his dog?
(a) She insists that the dog stay outside and earn its keep on the farm.
(b) She treats the dog better than anyone else in the family.
(c) She treats the dog the same way she treats Rip.
(d) She ignores the dog completely.

3. Who is Peter Stuyvesant?
(a) The owner of the village inn.
(b) The village schoolmaster.
(c) A former governor of New York.
(d) Rip's neighbor.

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 face is covered with wrinkles.
(c) His clothing is strangely worn and tattered.
(d) He has a deep sunburn.

5. When Rip finds the path that he and the strange man took on the night before, what surprising change has happened?
(a) It is now a dense forest.
(b) It is covered with splinters of wood from a keg.
(c) It is now a mountain stream.
(d) It is marked with several colors of dark paint.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where does Rip spend time with his friends?

3. How does Rip end up drinking some of the men's strange liquor?

4. When Rip and the stranger enter the natural amphitheater, Rip sees several people doing what?

5. Rip is surprised by the "singularity" of the stranger's appearance (36). What kind of appearance is this?

(see the answer key)

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