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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. What does the man that Rip traveled up the mountainside with want Rip to do once they reach the other men?
(a) Serve them alcohol.
(b) Play a game with them.
(c) Leave.
(d) Let them paint his picture.

2. What does Rip think has changed about the people of the village?
(a) They seem to be happier.
(b) They seem more thoughtful and considerate.
(c) They seem more hurried and busy.
(d) They seem to have lost their ambition.

3. How does Rip end up drinking some of the men's strange liquor?
(a) He sneaks it when they are not looking.
(b) The man he arrived with pours him a cup.
(c) The men gather around him and force him to drink.
(d) He mistakes it for water.

4. From the reference to the painting in the parsonage, what can the reader deduce about the men that Rip meets in the mountains?
(a) They look like Dutchmen from long ago.
(b) They look like European royalty.
(c) They are standing unnaturally still.
(d) They look like many copies of the same person.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do Rip and the stranger climb up on their way up the mountainside?

3. When Rip sees a dog that looks like Wolf outside of his old house, how does the dog behave?

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

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

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