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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Rip's dog's name?
(a) Dog.
(b) Bear.
(c) Dutch.
(d) Wolf.

2. What kind of relationship does Rip have with the village children?
(a) The children are frightened of Rip because he is always yelling at his son and daughter.
(b) The children are frightened of Rip because of his habit of talking to himself.
(c) He is a favorite of theirs because he steals apples from a nearby orchard for them.
(d) He is a favorite of theirs because he plays with them and tells stories.

3. When on page 31, the narrator refers to Rip's wife's nagging as a "torrent of household eloquence," what tone is created?
(a) Maudlin.
(b) Farcical.
(c) Ironic.
(d) Nostalgic.

4. After he can no longer spend time with his friends, where does Rip start going to spend time away from his home and farm?
(a) The seashore.
(b) The barn.
(c) The woods.
(d) The river.

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

6. Who is the frame narrator of "Rip Van Winkle"?
(a) Washington Irving.
(b) Geoffrey Crayon.
(c) Diedrich Knickerbocker.
(d) James Fenimore Cooper.

7. What evidence does the frame narrator give that the main story's narrator is still well-liked?
(a) There is a children's rope-skipping rhyme about him.
(b) There is a street in New York named after him.
(c) His portrait is hung in many local schools.
(d) His picture is stamped onto new year's cakes.

8. 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 Norse god, Odin.
(c) The Saxon god, Woden.
(d) The Christian God.

9. 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?
(a) Demanding and critical.
(b) Reckless and indifferent.
(c) Thorough and honest.
(d) Approximate and imperfect.

10. Where does Rip spend time with his friends?
(a) On a bench outside the village inn.
(b) Hunting in the woods.
(c) Fishing in the Hudson River.
(d) Inside the bar of a local hotel.

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

12. Who is Derrick Van Brummel?
(a) The schoolmaster.
(b) The owner of the village inn.
(c) The mayor.
(d) The owner of a local hotel.

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

14. Who is Peter Stuyvesant?
(a) The village schoolmaster.
(b) The owner of the village inn.
(c) A former governor of New York.
(d) Rip's neighbor.

15. Where is the village that Rip lives in?
(a) On the island of Manhattan.
(b) On the Atlantic coast.
(c) At the foot of the Appalachian Mountains.
(d) At the foot of the Catskill Mountains.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Diedrich Knickerbocker's profession?

2. 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?

3. How might Rip's house be described?

4. Which nation controls New York at the time when Rip and the village are introduced to the reader?

5. 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?

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