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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 2: Pages 33-36.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. When he is resting on the mountainside, what sound alerts Rip that someone is nearby?
(a) He hears someone calling his name.
(b) He hears someone singing.
(c) He hears someone struggling with a heavy load.
(d) He hears his dog barking at someone.
2. When Rip starts up the mountainside and finds his joints stiff and notices that he is not feeling as athletic as usual, what does he think is the cause?
(a) He thinks that he is under a spell.
(b) He thinks that sleeping on the mountainside may have given him an attack of rheumatism.
(c) He thinks that he must have walked much farther on the evening before than he first realized.
(d) He thinks that he is getting old.
3. In the epigraph from Cartwright's play, to whom does the speaker swear that he will be honest?
(a) The Celtic god, Alator.
(b) The Saxon god, Woden.
(c) The Christian God.
(d) The Norse god, Odin.
4. 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) Explained its details.
(b) Seen it.
(c) Complained about it.
(d) Been puzzled by it.
5. When Rip is tired from hunting, he lies down on a knoll. What is he lying on?
(a) A fallen tree.
(b) A small hill.
(c) A rounded depression.
(d) A flat spot.
Short Answer Questions
1. What evidence does the frame narrator give that the main story's narrator is still well-liked?
2. When Rip and the stranger enter the natural amphitheater, Rip sees several people doing what?
3. Who is the author of "Rip Van Winkle"?
4. From the reference to the painting in the parsonage, what can the reader deduce about the men that Rip meets in the mountains?
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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