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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 might Rip's house be described?
(a) Inviting.
(b) Filthy.
(c) Run-down.
(d) Expensive.

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

3. 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) Farcical.
(c) Ironic.
(d) Maudlin.

4. Who is "Dame" Van Winkle?
(a) Rip's sister.
(b) Rip's wife.
(c) Rip's mother.
(d) Rip's daughter.

5. On page 29, the narrator says that a person might have "descried" the smoke from the village. What does this mean a person might have done?
(a) Complained about it.
(b) Been puzzled by it.
(c) Seen it.
(d) Explained its details.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who is Peter Stuyvesant?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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