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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. On page 29, the mountains are said to be "lording it over the surrounding country." This is an example of which literary technique?
(a) Hyperbole.
(b) Onomatopoeia.
(c) Personification.
(d) Synechdoche.

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

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

4. Which nation controls New York at the time when Rip and the village are introduced to the reader?
(a) Holland.
(b) Great Britain.
(c) Sweden.
(d) The United States.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How might Rip's house be described?

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

3. 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?

4. When on page 31, the narrator refers to Rip's wife's nagging as a "torrent of household eloquence," what tone is created?

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

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