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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. Where does Rip spend time with his friends?
(a) Hunting in the woods.
(b) Inside the bar of a local hotel.
(c) Fishing in the Hudson River.
(d) On a bench outside the village inn.

2. From the reference to the painting in the parsonage, what can the reader deduce about the men that Rip meets in the mountains?
(a) They look like European royalty.
(b) They look like Dutchmen from long ago.
(c) They look like many copies of the same person.
(d) They are standing unnaturally still.

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

4. The men on the mountainside have "uncouth, lack lustre countenances" (34). What does this mean is true about the men?
(a) They are dressed like children even though they are old.
(b) Their clothing is sloppy and dull.
(c) Their voices are flat and they seem unhappy.
(d) Their faces look blank and they seem rude.

5. Why does Rip hurry over to the man he sees on the mountainside?
(a) He thinks it is a neighbor who needs his help.
(b) Wolf's reaction makes him curious to get a closer look.
(c) The man calls to him that he needs some help.
(d) The man seems to be about to drop his burden.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Rip and the stranger climb up on their way up the mountainside?

2. Which nation controls New York at the time when Rip and the village are introduced to the reader?

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

4. What is Rip's dog's name?

5. What is Diedrich Knickerbocker's profession?

(see the answer key)

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