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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 Rip and the stranger enter the natural amphitheater, Rip sees several people doing what?
(a) Gambling.
(b) Bowling.
(c) Drinking.
(d) Painting.

2. What are the "flagons" that the men on the mountainside have (34)?
(a) Old-fashioned hats.
(b) Dice.
(c) Cups.
(d) Weapons.

3. When Rip nears the amphitheater where the group of men were on the night before, what does he notice?
(a) The men are gone, but their equipment has been left behind.
(b) There is no longer an opening through the rock to reach the amphitheater.
(c) The men are gone, but there are tall rocks there that look like men.
(d) There is nothing left in the amphitheater except his own gun.

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

5. Who is Peter Stuyvesant?
(a) The village schoolmaster.
(b) A former governor of New York.
(c) The owner of the village inn.
(d) Rip's neighbor.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is "Dame" Van Winkle?

2. When on page 31, the narrator refers to Rip's wife's nagging as a "torrent of household eloquence," what tone is created?

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

4. How does Wolf react to the stranger on the mountainside?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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