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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 do Rip and the stranger climb up on their way up the mountainside?
(a) A pathway left by loggers.
(b) A long, muddy slope.
(c) A rocky cliff.
(d) The dry bed of a stream.

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

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

4. What are the "flagons" that the men on the mountainside have (34)?
(a) Old-fashioned hats.
(b) Dice.
(c) Weapons.
(d) Cups.

5. The men on the mountainside have "uncouth, lack lustre countenances" (34). What does this mean is true about the men?
(a) Their clothing is sloppy and dull.
(b) Their voices are flat and they seem unhappy.
(c) They are dressed like children even though they are old.
(d) Their faces look blank and they seem rude.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rip think has changed about the people of the village?

2. On page 30, the reader is told that Rip has an "insuperable aversion to all kinds of profitable labour." What does this mean is true about him?

3. Who does Judith Gardenier turn out to be?

4. What makes Rip's infant grandchild begin to cry?

5. Who else has allegedly seen the ghostly crew of bowlers in the Catskills?

(see the answer key)

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