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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to Rip as a result of drinking the strangers' liquor?
(a) He gets lost in the woods.
(b) He falls asleep.
(c) They chase him away.
(d) He can suddenly hear them talking.

2. When he is resting on the mountainside, what sound alerts Rip that someone is nearby?
(a) He hears someone struggling with a heavy load.
(b) He hears someone calling his name.
(c) He hears someone singing.
(d) He hears his dog barking at someone.

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

4. How does Wolf react to the stranger on the mountainside?
(a) He wags his tail and gives an excited bark.
(b) He growls at him.
(c) He tries to attack the man.
(d) He runs away into the woods.

5. 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 mountain stream.
(b) It is covered with splinters of wood from a keg.
(c) It is marked with several colors of dark paint.
(d) It is now a dense forest.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the man that Rip traveled up the mountainside with want Rip to do once they reach the other men?

2. What strikes Rip as very odd about the way the men on the mountainside are behaving?

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

4. What is the stranger on the mountainside carrying?

5. The men on the mountainside have "uncouth, lack lustre countenances" (34). What does this mean is true about the men?

Short Essay Questions

1. When Rip wakes up in the mountains, what changes does he immediately notice?

2. Explain what the natural "amphitheater" is and how Rip and the stranger reach it.

3. What is Wolf's reaction to the stranger in the mountains, and how does it ironically relate to what happens upon Rip's return to the village?

4. As Rip tries to retrace his steps from the night before, what changes does he find on the mountainside itself?

5. What do the men in the amphitheater remind Rip of, and what is this meant to signify?

6. When Rip reenters the village, what changes does he notice before he gets to his house?

7. What does the man in the mountains want Rip's help with, and how does he communicate this?

8. What noise does Rip hear as he and the stranger make their way up the mountain, and what does the noise later turn out to be?

9. What two things does Rip find the most unusual about the men in the amphitheater?

10. What two things does Rip at first find odd about the stranger in the mountains?

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