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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. On page 35, Rip is "tempted to repeat the draught." How is the word "draught" pronounced?
(a) Rhymes with "hot."
(b) Rhymes with "out."
(c) Rhymes with "loft."
(d) Rhymes with "raft."

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

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

4. Where is the village that Rip lives in?
(a) On the island of Manhattan.
(b) On the Atlantic coast.
(c) At the foot of the Catskill Mountains.
(d) At the foot of the Appalachian Mountains.

5. What does Rip keep hearing as he and the stranger climb up the mountainside?
(a) A deep, booming laugh.
(b) Something that sounds like stampeding animals.
(c) The roar of a waterfall.
(d) Something that sounds like thunder.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Rip spend time with his friends?

2. How does Rip's wife treat his dog?

3. Everything that happens to Rip on the morning after he meets the strangers on the mountain makes him feel "perplexities" (36). What does this mean that is Rip feeling?

4. Why does Rip stop spending time with his friends?

5. When Rip is tired from hunting, he lies down on a knoll. What is he lying on?

(see the answer key)

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