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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. From the description of Rip's attitude to his farm, on page 30, what can be deduced about Rip?
(a) He likes to make excuses instead of taking care of his responsibilities.
(b) He is devoted to his home and family.
(c) His attitude toward his own family is similar to his attitude toward the villagers.
(d) His farm is envied by many of his neighbors.

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

3. What is true of Rip's children in the beginning of the story?
(a) They are somewhat neglected.
(b) They are much more like their mother than like Rip.
(c) They refuse to speak to him.
(d) They are dangerously unsupervised.

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

5. What is Rip's first worry when he wakes up on the mountainside in the morning?
(a) His wife is going to be very angry.
(b) He feels unusually sore and tired.
(c) He cannot remember the night before.
(d) His gun and dog are missing.

Short Answer Questions

1. When on page 31, the narrator says of Rip that he will "eat white bread or brown," how is Rip being characterized?

2. 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?

3. Which nation controls New York at the time when Rip and the village are introduced to the reader?

4. How might Rip's house be described?

5. What does Rip keep hearing as he and the stranger climb up the mountainside?

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