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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3: Page 37-Postscript.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) Seen it.
(b) Complained about it.
(c) Been puzzled by it.
(d) Explained its details.

2. What is the first thing that the villagers want to know about Rip?
(a) Which political party he supports.
(b) Where he has been for twenty years.
(c) What has happened to his family.
(d) Whether he supported the American Revolution.

3. What causes Rip to finally start for home after he realizes that he will not be able to find the strange men again?
(a) He hopes that Wolf might have returned home.
(b) He is hungry.
(c) He is too frightened to stay on the mountain.
(d) He wants to tell his wife about his adventure.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Rip hurry over to the man he sees on the mountainside?

2. From the description of Rip's attitude to his farm, on page 30, what can be deduced about Rip?

3. Why does Diedrich Knickerbocker believe that the reader should accept Rip's story as true?

4. What is the purpose of the stories in the Postscript?

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

(see the answer key)

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