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

3. Who is Derrick Van Brummel?
(a) The schoolmaster.
(b) The mayor.
(c) The owner of a local hotel.
(d) The owner of the village inn.

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?
(a) One bullies the other.
(b) They each have a skill that helps the other.
(c) They have violent arguments with each other.
(d) One is embarrassed by the other.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

3. Which nation controls New York at the time when Rip and the village are introduced to the reader?

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

5. On page 29, the mountains are said to be "lording it over the surrounding country." This is an example of which literary technique?

(see the answer key)

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