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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 Rip is tired from hunting, he lies down on a knoll. What is he lying on?
(a) A flat spot.
(b) A rounded depression.
(c) A fallen tree.
(d) A small hill.

2. 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) Seen it.
(b) Been puzzled by it.
(c) Explained its details.
(d) Complained about it.

3. When on page 31, the narrator says of Rip that he will "eat white bread or brown," how is Rip being characterized?
(a) He is easy to please.
(b) He only likes two kinds of bread.
(c) He is unaware of what he is eating.
(d) He overeats.

4. Why does Rip stop spending time with his friends?
(a) His wife yells at them constantly.
(b) His friends decide that he is too lazy to be friends with.
(c) His friends move away to a bigger town.
(d) His wife tells him he cannot spend time with them anymore.

5. How does Rip end up drinking some of the men's strange liquor?
(a) The men gather around him and force him to drink.
(b) He sneaks it when they are not looking.
(c) He mistakes it for water.
(d) The man he arrived with pours him a cup.

Short Answer Questions

1. On page 30, the reader learns that Rip is "obsequious" and his wife is a "termagant." What can accurately be said about their relationship?

2. Where does Rip spend time with his friends?

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

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

5. Everything that happens to Rip on the morning after he meets the strangers on the mountain makes him feel "perplexities" (36). What does this mean that is Rip feeling?

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