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

2. What is Rip's son's name?
(a) Peter.
(b) Dutch.
(c) John.
(d) Rip.

3. Why does Rip stop spending time with his friends?
(a) His friends move away to a bigger town.
(b) His friends decide that he is too lazy to be friends with.
(c) His wife tells him he cannot spend time with them anymore.
(d) His wife yells at them constantly.

4. When on page 31, the narrator refers to Rip's wife's nagging as a "torrent of household eloquence," what tone is created?
(a) Nostalgic.
(b) Ironic.
(c) Farcical.
(d) Maudlin.

5. What is Diedrich Knickerbocker's profession?
(a) Writer of novels.
(b) Governor.
(c) Historian.
(d) Farmer.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Rip's wife treat his dog?

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

3. Who is Derrick Van Brummel?

4. What is Rip's dog's name?

5. Who is Peter Stuyvesant?

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