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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. What does Rip do while he is resting on the mountainside?
(a) Pets his dog, Wolf.
(b) Thinks about how to make his wife happier.
(c) Looks at the scenery.
(d) Skins the rabbit he shot.

2. Why does Rip stop spending time with his friends?
(a) His wife tells him he cannot spend time with them anymore.
(b) His friends decide that he is too lazy to be friends with.
(c) His wife yells at them constantly.
(d) His friends move away to a bigger town.

3. Who is the frame narrator of "Rip Van Winkle"?
(a) Washington Irving.
(b) Geoffrey Crayon.
(c) Diedrich Knickerbocker.
(d) James Fenimore Cooper.

4. When on page 31, the narrator says of Rip that he will "eat white bread or brown," how is Rip being characterized?
(a) He only likes two kinds of bread.
(b) He is unaware of what he is eating.
(c) He is easy to please.
(d) He overeats.

5. Where does Rip find himself on the morning after meeting the strangers on the mountain?
(a) Back at the spot where he met the first man coming up the mountain.
(b) Lost in the woods on the mountainside.
(c) In the natural "amphitheater."
(d) Next to the Hudson River.

Short Answer Questions

1. On page 35, Rip is "tempted to repeat the draught." How is the word "draught" pronounced?

2. On page 30, the reader learns that Rip is "obsequious" and his wife is a "termagant." What can accurately be said about their relationship?

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

4. Who is "Dame" Van Winkle?

5. When Rip finds the path that he and the strange man took on the night before, what surprising change has happened?

(see the answer key)

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