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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. 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) Personification.
(d) Synechdoche.

2. What does Rip think has changed about the people of the village?
(a) They seem to be happier.
(b) They seem more hurried and busy.
(c) They seem more thoughtful and considerate.
(d) They seem to have lost their ambition.

3. Which nation controls New York at the time when Rip and the village are introduced to the reader?
(a) Holland.
(b) The United States.
(c) Great Britain.
(d) Sweden.

4. What kind of relationship does Rip have with the village children?
(a) The children are frightened of Rip because of his habit of talking to himself.
(b) He is a favorite of theirs because he plays with them and tells stories.
(c) The children are frightened of Rip because he is always yelling at his son and daughter.
(d) He is a favorite of theirs because he steals apples from a nearby orchard for them.

5. When the crowd points out Rip's son, what confusion does it cause for Rip?
(a) He thinks that the man must be the "real" Rip Van Winkle.
(b) He does not remember having an adult son.
(c) He does not understand how one of his children can still be alive.
(d) He thinks that the crowd must be trying to fool him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What strikes Rip as very odd about the way the men on the mountainside are behaving?

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

3. Who is Derrick Van Brummel?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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