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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 do Rip and the stranger climb up on their way up the mountainside?
(a) A rocky cliff.
(b) A long, muddy slope.
(c) The dry bed of a stream.
(d) A pathway left by loggers.

2. What kind of relationship does Rip have with the village children?
(a) He is a favorite of theirs because he steals apples from a nearby orchard for them.
(b) The children are frightened of Rip because of his habit of talking to himself.
(c) He is a favorite of theirs because he plays with them and tells stories.
(d) The children are frightened of Rip because he is always yelling at his son and daughter.

3. 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?
(a) He thinks that sleeping on the mountainside may have given him an attack of rheumatism.
(b) He thinks that he is under a spell.
(c) He thinks that he is getting old.
(d) He thinks that he must have walked much farther on the evening before than he first realized.

4. 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?
(a) He hates working hard for his own material comfort and financial security.
(b) He is eager to work at anything that will help himself, but he does not like to help others.
(c) He is simply lazy.
(d) He is physically unable to do heavy labor.

5. When Rip sees a dog that looks like Wolf outside of his old house, how does the dog behave?
(a) It jumps up and licks his face.
(b) It seems to not be able to see him.
(c) It snarls at him and then walks away.
(d) It quivers in fear.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Rip's first worry when he wakes up on the mountainside in the morning?

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

3. When Rip nears the amphitheater where the group of men were on the night before, what does he notice?

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

5. When Rip finds the path that he and the strange man took on the night before, what surprising change has happened?

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