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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 does Rip keep hearing as he and the stranger climb up the mountainside?
(a) A deep, booming laugh.
(b) The roar of a waterfall.
(c) Something that sounds like thunder.
(d) Something that sounds like stampeding animals.

2. What happens to Rip as a result of drinking the strangers' liquor?
(a) He gets lost in the woods.
(b) He falls asleep.
(c) He can suddenly hear them talking.
(d) They chase him away.

3. When Rip starts up the mountainside and finds his joints stiff and notices that he is not feeling as athletic as usual, what does he think is the cause?
(a) He thinks that he is under a spell.
(b) He thinks that he must have walked much farther on the evening before than he first realized.
(c) He thinks that sleeping on the mountainside may have given him an attack of rheumatism.
(d) He thinks that he is getting old.

4. Where does Rip find himself on the morning after meeting the strangers on the mountain?
(a) Lost in the woods on the mountainside.
(b) Back at the spot where he met the first man coming up the mountain.
(c) In the natural "amphitheater."
(d) Next to the Hudson River.

5. Everything that happens to Rip on the morning after he meets the strangers on the mountain makes him feel "perplexities" (36). What does this mean that is Rip feeling?
(a) Angry.
(b) Surprised.
(c) Sad.
(d) Confused.

Short Answer Questions

1. What causes Rip to finally start for home after he realizes that he will not be able to find the strange men again?

2. What are the "flagons" that the men on the mountainside have (34)?

3. On page 33, Rip complies with the stranger's request with "his usual alacrity." How does Rip comply?

4. On page 28, the reader is told that the narrator of the main story is known for "scrupulous" accuracy. What kind of accuracy is this?

5. How does Rip's wife treat his dog?

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