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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) 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.

2. 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.

3. On page 30, the reader learns that Rip is "obsequious" and his wife is a "termagant." What can accurately be said about their relationship?
(a) One bullies the other.
(b) They have violent arguments with each other.
(c) One is embarrassed by the other.
(d) They each have a skill that helps the other.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Under what pseudonym was "Rip Van Winkle" published?

2. The men on the mountainside have "uncouth, lack lustre countenances" (34). What does this mean is true about the men?

3. What does Rip keep hearing as he and the stranger climb up the mountainside?

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

5. When Rip starts up the mountainside and finds his joints stiff and notices that he is not feeling as athletic as usual, what does he think is the cause?

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