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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. What is Diedrich Knickerbocker's profession?
(a) Historian.
(b) Farmer.
(c) Writer of novels.
(d) Governor.

2. What is Rip's first worry when he wakes up on the mountainside in the morning?
(a) His gun and dog are missing.
(b) His wife is going to be very angry.
(c) He cannot remember the night before.
(d) He feels unusually sore and tired.

3. On page 29, the mountains are said to be "lording it over the surrounding country." This is an example of which literary technique?
(a) Synechdoche.
(b) Personification.
(c) Onomatopoeia.
(d) Hyperbole.

4. When Rip starts up the mountainside and finds his joints stiff and notices that he is not feeling as athletic as usual, what does he think is the cause?
(a) He thinks that sleeping on the mountainside may have given him an attack of rheumatism.
(b) He thinks that he is under a spell.
(c) He thinks that he is getting old.
(d) He thinks that he must have walked much farther on the evening before than he first realized.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the frame narrator of "Rip Van Winkle"?

2. 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?

3. On page 35, Rip is "tempted to repeat the draught." How is the word "draught" pronounced?

4. What is the stranger on the mountainside carrying?

5. On page 29, the narrator says that a person might have "descried" the smoke from the village. What does this mean a person might have done?

(see the answer key)

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