1. On page 30, the reader is told that Rip has an "insuperable aversion to all kinds of profitable labour." What does this mean is true about him?
(a) He is simply lazy.
(b) He hates working hard for his own material comfort and financial security.
(c) He is physically unable to do heavy labor.
(d) He is eager to work at anything that will help himself, but he does not like to help others.

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

3. 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.

4. Where does Rip go to live after he returns to the village?
(a) At his daughter's house.
(b) At his son's house.
(c) At his former home.
(d) At the Union Hotel.

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