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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. How does Rip's wife treat his dog?
(a) She treats the dog better than anyone else in the family.
(b) She ignores the dog completely.
(c) She treats the dog the same way she treats Rip.
(d) She insists that the dog stay outside and earn its keep on the farm.

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

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

4. Under what pseudonym was "Rip Van Winkle" published?
(a) James Fenimore Cooper.
(b) Diedrich Knickerbocker.
(c) Washington Irving.
(d) Geoffrey Crayon.

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?
(a) The wives of local indigenous leaders.
(b) The wives of country farmers.
(c) The wives of political officials.
(d) The wives of prominent Dutch colonists.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the epigraph from Cartwright's play, to whom does the speaker swear that he will be honest?

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

3. What kind of relationship does Rip have with the village children?

4. After he can no longer spend time with his friends, where does Rip start going to spend time away from his home and farm?

5. Who is Derrick Van Brummel?

(see the answer key)

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