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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. Why does the crowd ask Peter Vanderdonk for his opinion of Rip's story?
(a) He is the newly-elected mayor.
(b) He is the richest and most important man in town.
(c) He is the man in the cocked hat.
(d) He is very old and the descendant of a famous historian.

2. What makes Rip feel like he has more liberty than he had as a younger man?
(a) The new respect he gains among the villagers.
(b) The things that he learned while in the mountains.
(c) His freedom from Dame Van Winkle.
(d) The American Revolution.

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) Onomatopoeia.
(b) Hyperbole.
(c) Synechdoche.
(d) Personification.

4. Why does Rip stop spending time with his friends?
(a) His wife tells him he cannot spend time with them anymore.
(b) His friends move away to a bigger town.
(c) His wife yells at them constantly.
(d) His friends decide that he is too lazy to be friends with.

5. What evidence does the frame narrator give that the main story's narrator is still well-liked?
(a) His portrait is hung in many local schools.
(b) There is a street in New York named after him.
(c) His picture is stamped onto new year's cakes.
(d) There is a children's rope-skipping rhyme about him.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of "Rip Van Winkle"?

2. How does Irving characterize Rip's son?

3. 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?

4. What is the purpose of the stories in the Postscript?

5. What has happened to Dame Van Winkle during Rip's absence?

(see the answer key)

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