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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Rip and the stranger enter the natural amphitheater, Rip sees several people doing what?
(a) Drinking.
(b) Bowling.
(c) Gambling.
(d) Painting.

2. Rip is surprised by the "singularity" of the stranger's appearance (36). What kind of appearance is this?
(a) Unique.
(b) Funny.
(c) Frightening.
(d) Neat.

3. What is Rip's first worry when he wakes up on the mountainside in the morning?
(a) His wife is going to be very angry.
(b) His gun and dog are missing.
(c) He cannot remember the night before.
(d) He feels unusually sore and tired.

4. What does Rip keep hearing as he and the stranger climb up the mountainside?
(a) Something that sounds like thunder.
(b) A deep, booming laugh.
(c) Something that sounds like stampeding animals.
(d) The roar of a waterfall.

5. When Rip nears the amphitheater where the group of men were on the night before, what does he notice?
(a) There is no longer an opening through the rock to reach the amphitheater.
(b) The men are gone, but their equipment has been left behind.
(c) The men are gone, but there are tall rocks there that look like men.
(d) There is nothing left in the amphitheater except his own gun.

6. When Rip starts up the mountainside and finds his joints stiff and notices that he is not feeling as athletic as usual, what does he think is the cause?
(a) He thinks that he is getting old.
(b) He thinks that sleeping on the mountainside may have given him an attack of rheumatism.
(c) He thinks that he is under a spell.
(d) He thinks that he must have walked much farther on the evening before than he first realized.

7. On page 35, Rip is "tempted to repeat the draught." How is the word "draught" pronounced?
(a) Rhymes with "loft."
(b) Rhymes with "out."
(c) Rhymes with "hot."
(d) Rhymes with "raft."

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

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

10. Everything that happens to Rip on the morning after he meets the strangers on the mountain makes him feel "perplexities" (36). What does this mean that is Rip feeling?
(a) Confused.
(b) Sad.
(c) Angry.
(d) Surprised.

11. When Rip is tired from hunting, he lies down on a knoll. What is he lying on?
(a) A small hill.
(b) A fallen tree.
(c) A rounded depression.
(d) A flat spot.

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

13. What are the "flagons" that the men on the mountainside have (34)?
(a) Cups.
(b) Old-fashioned hats.
(c) Weapons.
(d) Dice.

14. When Rip finds the path that he and the strange man took on the night before, what surprising change has happened?
(a) It is now a dense forest.
(b) It is marked with several colors of dark paint.
(c) It is covered with splinters of wood from a keg.
(d) It is now a mountain stream.

15. What type of clothing is the stranger on the mountainside wearing?
(a) He is dressed like a Dutchman from long ago.
(b) He is dressed like an innkeeper.
(c) He is dressed like a British soldier.
(d) He is dressed like a pirate captain.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Wolf react to the stranger on the mountainside?

2. What does Rip do while he is resting on the mountainside?

3. What happens to Rip as a result of drinking the strangers' liquor?

4. From the reference to the painting in the parsonage, what can the reader deduce about the men that Rip meets in the mountains?

5. Why does Rip hurry over to the man he sees on the mountainside?

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