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

2. What do Rip and the stranger climb up on their way up the mountainside?
(a) A long, muddy slope.
(b) The dry bed of a stream.
(c) A pathway left by loggers.
(d) A rocky cliff.

3. What is true of Rip's children in the beginning of the story?
(a) They refuse to speak to him.
(b) They are dangerously unsupervised.
(c) They are much more like their mother than like Rip.
(d) They are somewhat neglected.

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

5. Who is Derrick Van Brummel?
(a) The owner of the village inn.
(b) The mayor.
(c) The schoolmaster.
(d) The owner of a local hotel.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Under what pseudonym was "Rip Van Winkle" published?

3. How might Rip's house be described?

4. In the epigraph from Cartwright's play, to whom does the speaker swear that he will be honest?

5. What is Rip's son's name?

(see the answer key)

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