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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 true of Rip's children in the beginning of the story?
(a) They are much more like their mother than like Rip.
(b) They refuse to speak to him.
(c) They are somewhat neglected.
(d) They are dangerously unsupervised.

2. Why does Rip hurry over to the man he sees on the mountainside?
(a) The man seems to be about to drop his burden.
(b) He thinks it is a neighbor who needs his help.
(c) The man calls to him that he needs some help.
(d) Wolf's reaction makes him curious to get a closer look.

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

4. When he is resting on the mountainside, what sound alerts Rip that someone is nearby?
(a) He hears someone singing.
(b) He hears someone calling his name.
(c) He hears someone struggling with a heavy load.
(d) He hears his dog barking at someone.

5. What evidence does the frame narrator give that the main story's narrator is still well-liked?
(a) His portrait is hung in many local schools.
(b) There is a children's rope-skipping rhyme about him.
(c) There is a street in New York named after him.
(d) His picture is stamped onto new year's cakes.

Short Answer Questions

1. From the description of Rip's attitude to his farm, on page 30, what can be deduced about Rip?

2. What does the man that Rip traveled up the mountainside with want Rip to do once they reach the other men?

3. When Rip wakes in the morning on the mountainside, what does he think has happened to his gun?

4. What happens to Rip as a result of drinking the strangers' liquor?

5. On page 29, the setting sun causes something to light up and glow "like a crown of glory." This is an example of what literary technique?

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