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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 does the man that Rip traveled up the mountainside with want Rip to do once they reach the other men?
(a) Let them paint his picture.
(b) Leave.
(c) Play a game with them.
(d) Serve them alcohol.

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

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

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

5. How might Rip's house be described?
(a) Run-down.
(b) Filthy.
(c) Expensive.
(d) Inviting.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Rip and the stranger enter the natural amphitheater, Rip sees several people doing what?

2. What do Rip and the stranger climb up on their way up the mountainside?

3. Where is the village that Rip lives in?

4. On page 33, Rip complies with the stranger's request with "his usual alacrity." How does Rip comply?

5. On page 30, the reader is told that Rip has an "insuperable aversion to all kinds of profitable labour." What does this mean is true about him?

(see the answer key)

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