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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. What is Diedrich Knickerbocker's profession?
(a) Governor.
(b) Writer of novels.
(c) Farmer.
(d) Historian.

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

3. Who is the frame narrator of "Rip Van Winkle"?
(a) Washington Irving.
(b) Geoffrey Crayon.
(c) Diedrich Knickerbocker.
(d) James Fenimore Cooper.

4. What is the stranger on the mountainside carrying?
(a) A bowling ball and pins.
(b) Equipment for camping in the mountains.
(c) An antique gun and the carcass of a deer.
(d) A keg of alcohol.

5. When Rip nears the amphitheater where the group of men were on the night before, what does he notice?
(a) There is no longer an opening through the rock to reach the amphitheater.
(b) The men are gone, but there are tall rocks there that look like men.
(c) The men are gone, but their equipment has been left behind.
(d) There is nothing left in the amphitheater except his own gun.

Short Answer Questions

1. When he is resting on the mountainside, what sound alerts Rip that someone is nearby?

2. 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?

3. What are the "flagons" that the men on the mountainside have (34)?

4. Rip is surprised by the "singularity" of the stranger's appearance (36). What kind of appearance is this?

5. What causes Rip to finally start for home after he realizes that he will not be able to find the strange men again?

(see the answer key)

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