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

2. Under what pseudonym was "Rip Van Winkle" published?
(a) James Fenimore Cooper.
(b) Geoffrey Crayon.
(c) Diedrich Knickerbocker.
(d) Washington Irving.

3. Where does Rip spend time with his friends?
(a) On a bench outside the village inn.
(b) Inside the bar of a local hotel.
(c) Fishing in the Hudson River.
(d) Hunting in the woods.

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

5. 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) Onomatopoeia.
(c) Hyperbole.
(d) Synechdoche.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Rip's wife treat his dog?

2. Who is Peter Stuyvesant?

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

4. Where is the village that Rip lives in?

5. After he can no longer spend time with his friends, where does Rip start going to spend time away from his home and farm?

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