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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) Washington Irving.
(b) Geoffrey Crayon.
(c) Diedrich Knickerbocker.
(d) James Fenimore Cooper.

2. In the epigraph from Cartwright's play, to whom does the speaker swear that he will be honest?
(a) The Norse god, Odin.
(b) The Saxon god, Woden.
(c) The Celtic god, Alator.
(d) The Christian God.

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) His portrait is hung in many local schools.
(c) There is a children's rope-skipping rhyme about him.
(d) There is a street in New York named after him.

4. When on page 31, the narrator says of Rip that he will "eat white bread or brown," how is Rip being characterized?
(a) He is unaware of what he is eating.
(b) He only likes two kinds of bread.
(c) He overeats.
(d) He is easy to please.

5. On page 30, the reader learns that Rip is "obsequious" and his wife is a "termagant." What can accurately be said about their relationship?
(a) One bullies the other.
(b) They have violent arguments with each other.
(c) One is embarrassed by the other.
(d) They each have a skill that helps the other.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the village that Rip lives in?

2. What is true of Rip's children in the beginning of the story?

3. On page 28, the reader is told that the narrator of the main story is known for "scrupulous" accuracy. What kind of accuracy is this?

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

5. In the frame narrative, the reader is told that the main story's narrator gets his information from the wives of the "burghers" (28). Whose wives are these?

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