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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 Rip hurry over to the man he sees on the mountainside?
(a) The man calls to him that he needs some help.
(b) He thinks it is a neighbor who needs his help.
(c) The man seems to be about to drop his burden.
(d) Wolf's reaction makes him curious to get a closer look.

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

3. What is Rip's son's name?
(a) John.
(b) Dutch.
(c) Rip.
(d) Peter.

4. When Rip is finally identified and tells his story, what is the reaction of the villagers?
(a) They think he is lying.
(b) They think he is drunk.
(c) They are saddened.
(d) They are amazed.

5. When on page 31, the narrator refers to Rip's wife's nagging as a "torrent of household eloquence," what tone is created?
(a) Farcical.
(b) Nostalgic.
(c) Ironic.
(d) Maudlin.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Diedrich Knickerbocker's profession?

2. How does Wolf react to the stranger on the mountainside?

3. Why does Diedrich Knickerbocker believe that the reader should accept Rip's story as true?

4. When Rip breaks down over seeing his son, what does the crowd begin to think?

5. Where do the notes in the Postscript allegedly come from?

(see the answer key)

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