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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. Who is the author of "Rip Van Winkle"?
(a) Diedrich Knickerbocker.
(b) James Fenimore Cooper.
(c) Geoffrey Crayon.
(d) Washington Irving.

2. What does the man that Rip traveled up the mountainside with want Rip to do once they reach the other men?
(a) Serve them alcohol.
(b) Play a game with them.
(c) Leave.
(d) Let them paint his picture.

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

4. On page 29, the setting sun causes something to light up and glow "like a crown of glory." This is an example of what literary technique?
(a) Alliteration.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Simile.
(d) Understatement.

5. Rip is surprised by the "singularity" of the stranger's appearance (36). What kind of appearance is this?
(a) Unique.
(b) Neat.
(c) Funny.
(d) Frightening.

Short Answer Questions

1. How might Rip's house be described?

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

4. Where does Rip spend time with his friends?

5. What are the "flagons" that the men on the mountainside have (34)?

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