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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. 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?
(a) Confused.
(b) Surprised.
(c) Sad.
(d) Angry.

2. What does Rip do while he is resting on the mountainside?
(a) Thinks about how to make his wife happier.
(b) Pets his dog, Wolf.
(c) Skins the rabbit he shot.
(d) Looks at the scenery.

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

4. What causes Rip to finally start for home after he realizes that he will not be able to find the strange men again?
(a) He wants to tell his wife about his adventure.
(b) He hopes that Wolf might have returned home.
(c) He is too frightened to stay on the mountain.
(d) He is hungry.

5. What is Diedrich Knickerbocker's profession?
(a) Writer of novels.
(b) Farmer.
(c) Historian.
(d) Governor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is true of Rip's children in the beginning of the story?

2. 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?

3. On page 29, the mountains are said to be "lording it over the surrounding country." This is an example of which literary technique?

4. Who is Peter Stuyvesant?

5. When Rip wakes in the morning on the mountainside, what does he think has happened to his gun?

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