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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. When on page 31, the narrator refers to Rip's wife's nagging as a "torrent of household eloquence," what tone is created?
(a) Farcical.
(b) Nostalgic.
(c) Ironic.
(d) Maudlin.

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) Personification.
(b) Onomatopoeia.
(c) Hyperbole.
(d) Synechdoche.

3. Who is "Dame" Van Winkle?
(a) Rip's wife.
(b) Rip's daughter.
(c) Rip's mother.
(d) Rip's sister.

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

5. After he can no longer spend time with his friends, where does Rip start going to spend time away from his home and farm?
(a) The woods.
(b) The barn.
(c) The river.
(d) The seashore.

Short Answer Questions

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

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 does Rip do while he is resting on the mountainside?

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

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

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