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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3: Page 37-Postscript.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the purpose of the stories in the Postscript?
(a) To surprise the reader with an unexpected twist in the plot.
(b) To explain the magical nature of the Catskills.
(c) To tell what happened to Rip's family in future generations.
(d) To create comic effect.

2. When Rip breaks down over seeing his son, what does the crowd begin to think?
(a) He is lying.
(b) He really is who he says he is.
(c) He is playing a prank.
(d) He is mentally ill.

3. Why does Diedrich Knickerbocker believe that the reader should accept Rip's story as true?
(a) He himself met Rip and saw a judge verify Rip's soundness of mind.
(b) He himself met the ghostly explorer and his crew.
(c) His own father met the ghostly explorer and his crew.
(d) Every witness that he interviewed verified Rip's story, and he heard the same story from all of them.

4. When Rip realizes that his house has been abandoned, where is the next place he goes?
(a) The village school.
(b) The parsonage.
(c) His in-laws' house.
(d) The village inn.

5. 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 somewhat neglected.
(d) They are dangerously unsupervised.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the village that Rip lives in?

2. When, on page 37, Rip meets "a knowing, self-important old gentleman, in a sharp cocked hat," what is the reader meant to infer from the description of the hat?

3. What is the name of the ghostly explorer that Vanderdonk says haunts the Catskills?

4. Rip thinks that the people of the village have become "disputatious" (37). What does this mean they are likely to do?

5. When Rip is finally identified and tells his story, what is the reaction of the villagers?

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