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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 1: Pages 28-32.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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 barn.
(b) The seashore.
(c) The woods.
(d) The river.

4. Where is the village that Rip lives in?
(a) On the island of Manhattan.
(b) At the foot of the Appalachian Mountains.
(c) At the foot of the Catskill Mountains.
(d) On the Atlantic coast.

5. 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?
(a) The wives of local indigenous leaders.
(b) The wives of political officials.
(c) The wives of prominent Dutch colonists.
(d) The wives of country farmers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What evidence does the frame narrator give that the main story's narrator is still well-liked?

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. Who is the author of "Rip Van Winkle"?

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

5. On page 29, the mountains are said to be "lording it over the surrounding country." This is an example of which literary technique?

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