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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 the first thing that the villagers want to know about Rip?
(a) Which political party he supports.
(b) Where he has been for twenty years.
(c) Whether he supported the American Revolution.
(d) What has happened to his family.

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

3. What causes Rip to recognize Judith Gardenier?
(a) She is wearing a dress that he remembers.
(b) She reminds him of the last time they saw one another.
(c) The name of her baby and the sound of her voice.
(d) The ring on her finger.

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

5. 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?
(a) He hates working hard for his own material comfort and financial security.
(b) He is eager to work at anything that will help himself, but he does not like to help others.
(c) He is physically unable to do heavy labor.
(d) He is simply lazy.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What kind of relationship does Rip have with the village children?

3. What type of clothing is the stranger on the mountainside wearing?

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

5. When on page 31, the narrator refers to Rip's wife's nagging as a "torrent of household eloquence," what tone is created?

(see the answer key)

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