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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 frame narrator of "Rip Van Winkle"?
(a) Washington Irving.
(b) Geoffrey Crayon.
(c) James Fenimore Cooper.
(d) Diedrich Knickerbocker.

2. When Rip and the stranger enter the natural amphitheater, Rip sees several people doing what?
(a) Gambling.
(b) Drinking.
(c) Bowling.
(d) Painting.

3. How does Wolf react to the stranger on the mountainside?
(a) He runs away into the woods.
(b) He growls at him.
(c) He tries to attack the man.
(d) He wags his tail and gives an excited bark.

4. How might Rip's house be described?
(a) Run-down.
(b) Filthy.
(c) Inviting.
(d) Expensive.

5. When he is resting on the mountainside, what sound alerts Rip that someone is nearby?
(a) He hears his dog barking at someone.
(b) He hears someone struggling with a heavy load.
(c) He hears someone singing.
(d) He hears someone calling his name.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Rip as a result of drinking the strangers' liquor?

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

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

4. 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?

5. How does Rip end up drinking some of the men's strange liquor?

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