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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. Who is the author of "Rip Van Winkle"?
(a) Diedrich Knickerbocker.
(b) Geoffrey Crayon.
(c) James Fenimore Cooper.
(d) Washington Irving.

2. 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 eager to work at anything that will help himself, but he does not like to help others.
(b) He is physically unable to do heavy labor.
(c) He hates working hard for his own material comfort and financial security.
(d) He is simply lazy.

3. What evidence does the frame narrator give that the main story's narrator is still well-liked?
(a) His picture is stamped onto new year's cakes.
(b) There is a street in New York named after him.
(c) His portrait is hung in many local schools.
(d) There is a children's rope-skipping rhyme about him.

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

5. Who is Peter Stuyvesant?
(a) A former governor of New York.
(b) The owner of the village inn.
(c) Rip's neighbor.
(d) The village schoolmaster.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Rip stop spending time with his friends?

2. Where does Rip spend time with his friends?

3. On page 29, the setting sun causes something to light up and glow "like a crown of glory." This is an example of what literary technique?

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

5. How might Rip's house be described?

(see the answer key)

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