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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 strikes Rip as very odd about the way the men on the mountainside are behaving?
(a) They seem to be completely unable to see him, even though he is standing very close to them.
(b) Even though they are playing a game, they seem unhappy.
(c) Although no one speaks, they keep nodding and laughing.
(d) They seem to be expecting him, because there is an open spot left for him.

2. Why does Diedrich Knickerbocker believe that the reader should accept Rip's story as true?
(a) He himself met Rip and saw a judge verify Rip's soundness of mind.
(b) His own father met the ghostly explorer and his crew.
(c) Every witness that he interviewed verified Rip's story, and he heard the same story from all of them.
(d) He himself met the ghostly explorer and his crew.

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 prominent Dutch colonists.
(b) The wives of country farmers.
(c) The wives of local indigenous leaders.
(d) The wives of political officials.

4. How does Rip end up drinking some of the men's strange liquor?
(a) The men gather around him and force him to drink.
(b) He sneaks it when they are not looking.
(c) The man he arrived with pours him a cup.
(d) He mistakes it for water.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. On page 30, the reader is told that Rip has an "insuperable aversion to all kinds of profitable labour." What does this mean is true about him?

2. When Rip learns what has happened to his wife in his absence, how does he feel?

3. What is Diedrich Knickerbocker's profession?

4. When Rip sees a dog that looks like Wolf outside of his old house, how does the dog behave?

5. When Rip finds the path that he and the strange man took on the night before, what surprising change has happened?

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