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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. How does Rip's wife treat his dog?
(a) She treats the dog better than anyone else in the family.
(b) She treats the dog the same way she treats Rip.
(c) She ignores the dog completely.
(d) She insists that the dog stay outside and earn its keep on the farm.

2. 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) Sad.
(b) Surprised.
(c) Confused.
(d) Angry.

3. When on page 31, the narrator says of Rip that he will "eat white bread or brown," how is Rip being characterized?
(a) He overeats.
(b) He is unaware of what he is eating.
(c) He only likes two kinds of bread.
(d) He is easy to please.

4. Under what pseudonym was "Rip Van Winkle" published?
(a) Diedrich Knickerbocker.
(b) Geoffrey Crayon.
(c) James Fenimore Cooper.
(d) Washington Irving.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of clothing is the stranger on the mountainside wearing?

2. What strikes Rip as very odd about the way the men on the mountainside are behaving?

3. When Rip and the stranger enter the natural amphitheater, Rip sees several people doing what?

4. What is Diedrich Knickerbocker's profession?

5. On page 33, Rip complies with the stranger's request with "his usual alacrity." How does Rip comply?

(see the answer key)

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