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

2. Who is Peter Stuyvesant?
(a) The village schoolmaster.
(b) Rip's neighbor.
(c) The owner of the village inn.
(d) A former governor of New York.

3. What is Rip's dog's name?
(a) Wolf.
(b) Dog.
(c) Bear.
(d) Dutch.

4. On his way home from the mountains, what does Rip suddenly realize about his own appearance?
(a) His face is covered with wrinkles.
(b) His clothing is strangely worn and tattered.
(c) He has a deep sunburn.
(d) His beard has grown a foot longer.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How might Rip's house be described?

3. What is Rip's son's name?

4. 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?

5. On page 35, Rip is "tempted to repeat the draught." How is the word "draught" pronounced?

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