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This test consists of 5 short answer questions and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is one of Ichabod's musical students?

2. What is the tone of the story?

3. What does a visiting farmer bring news of years later, after Ichabod's disappearance from Sleepy Hollow?

4. According to Brom, the Headless Horseman vanishes in what manner?

5. A new path leads Ichabod, Gunpowder, and his mysterious rider to what location?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

A metaphor is used to compare to unlike things. In what ways is the metaphor played throughout the story? How and where is the metaphor prevalent in the story? Do you think the use of metaphors is effective to the overall storyline? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

How does the author's methods at the beginning of the story set the tone?

Part 1) How does the usage of the quatrain poem further promote the tone?

Part 2) How does the poem's word choice also promote the tone?

Part 3) The papers are said to be found amongst those of a dead man. How does this promote the tone?

Essay Topic 3

What is the significance of a birch tree growing near the school house cabin and why is it ironic? The narrator refers to Ichabod's use of discipline and his type of discipline often allowed the weak to escape but the strong were severely punished.

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