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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 type of clothing is the stranger on the mountainside wearing?
(a) He is dressed like an innkeeper.
(b) He is dressed like a pirate captain.
(c) He is dressed like a Dutchman from long ago.
(d) He is dressed like a British soldier.

2. Where does Rip find himself on the morning after meeting the strangers on the mountain?
(a) Back at the spot where he met the first man coming up the mountain.
(b) In the natural "amphitheater."
(c) Lost in the woods on the mountainside.
(d) Next to the Hudson River.

3. 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 hates working hard for his own material comfort and financial security.
(d) He is eager to work at anything that will help himself, but he does not like to help others.

4. When Rip is tired from hunting, he lies down on a knoll. What is he lying on?
(a) A fallen tree.
(b) A flat spot.
(c) A small hill.
(d) A rounded depression.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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. Who is "Dame" Van Winkle?

4. Who is the frame narrator of "Rip Van Winkle"?

5. Where is the village that Rip lives in?

(see the answer key)

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