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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. Why does Rip stop spending time with his friends?
(a) His wife tells him he cannot spend time with them anymore.
(b) His friends move away to a bigger town.
(c) His wife yells at them constantly.
(d) His friends decide that he is too lazy to be friends with.

2. When Rip wakes in the morning on the mountainside, what does he think has happened to his gun?
(a) He thinks that he might have dropped it in the woods.
(b) He thinks that the strange men have stolen it.
(c) He thinks that the strange men are playing some kind of joke.
(d) He thinks that he must have left it in the amphitheater.

3. On page 29, the setting sun causes something to light up and glow "like a crown of glory." This is an example of what literary technique?
(a) Alliteration.
(b) Simile.
(c) Understatement.
(d) Metaphor.

4. What causes Rip to finally start for home after he realizes that he will not be able to find the strange men again?
(a) He is hungry.
(b) He hopes that Wolf might have returned home.
(c) He is too frightened to stay on the mountain.
(d) He wants to tell his wife about his adventure.

5. What kind of relationship does Rip have with the village children?
(a) He is a favorite of theirs because he plays with them and tells stories.
(b) The children are frightened of Rip because of his habit of talking to himself.
(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.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the crowd points out Rip's son, what confusion does it cause for Rip?

2. Where is the village that Rip lives in?

3. What does Rip keep hearing as he and the stranger climb up the mountainside?

4. Who else has allegedly seen the ghostly crew of bowlers in the Catskills?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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