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

2. Who is the frame narrator of "Rip Van Winkle"?
(a) Washington Irving.
(b) James Fenimore Cooper.
(c) Geoffrey Crayon.
(d) Diedrich Knickerbocker.

3. In the frame narrative, the reader is told that the main story's narrator gets his information from the wives of the "burghers" (28). Whose wives are these?
(a) The wives of country farmers.
(b) The wives of political officials.
(c) The wives of prominent Dutch colonists.
(d) The wives of local indigenous leaders.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the man that Rip traveled up the mountainside with want Rip to do once they reach the other men?

2. In the epigraph from Cartwright's play, to whom does the speaker swear that he will be honest?

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

4. What causes Rip to first understand what a long time he has been away from the village?

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

(see the answer key)

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