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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. Who is the owner of the Union Hotel?
(a) Van Brummel.
(b) Nicholaus Vedder.
(c) Hendrick Hudson.
(d) Jonathan Doolittle.

2. What do Rip and the stranger climb up on their way up the mountainside?
(a) The dry bed of a stream.
(b) A pathway left by loggers.
(c) A long, muddy slope.
(d) A rocky cliff.

3. How might Rip's house be described?
(a) Run-down.
(b) Inviting.
(c) Expensive.
(d) Filthy.

4. In the epigraph from Cartwright's play, to whom does the speaker swear that he will be honest?
(a) The Celtic god, Alator.
(b) The Saxon god, Woden.
(c) The Christian God.
(d) The Norse god, Odin.

5. Who is "Dame" Van Winkle?
(a) Rip's daughter.
(b) Rip's sister.
(c) Rip's mother.
(d) Rip's wife.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the frame narrator of "Rip Van Winkle"?

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

3. Under what pseudonym was "Rip Van Winkle" published?

4. When Rip is tired from hunting, he lies down on a knoll. What is he lying on?

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

(see the answer key)

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