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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. Who else has allegedly seen the ghostly crew of bowlers in the Catskills?
(a) Rip Van Winkle's son.
(b) Diedrich Knickerbocker.
(c) Geoffrey Crayon.
(d) Vanderdonk's father.

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

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

4. What has happened to Dame Van Winkle during Rip's absence?
(a) She goes to live in another village, where she still lives.
(b) She mourns Rip so deeply that she dies of a broken heart.
(c) She bursts a blood vessel in an argument and dies.
(d) She remarries almost immediately after he disappears.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When Rip and the stranger enter the natural amphitheater, Rip sees several people doing what?

2. What does Rip think has changed about the people of the village?

3. Why does the crowd ask Peter Vanderdonk for his opinion of Rip's story?

4. On page 30, the reader learns that Rip is "obsequious" and his wife is a "termagant." What can accurately be said about their relationship?

5. Where does Rip go to live after he returns to the village?

(see the answer key)

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