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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. What is the stranger on the mountainside carrying?
(a) An antique gun and the carcass of a deer.
(b) Equipment for camping in the mountains.
(c) A bowling ball and pins.
(d) A keg of alcohol.

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

3. Who is the owner of the Union Hotel?
(a) Van Brummel.
(b) Hendrick Hudson.
(c) Nicholaus Vedder.
(d) Jonathan Doolittle.

4. What is the name of the ghostly explorer that Vanderdonk says haunts the Catskills?
(a) Jonathan Doolittle.
(b) Nicholaus Vedder.
(c) Hendrick Hudson.
(d) Van Brummel.

5. When on page 31, the narrator says of Rip that he will "eat white bread or brown," how is Rip being characterized?
(a) He is unaware of what he is eating.
(b) He overeats.
(c) He only likes two kinds of bread.
(d) He is easy to please.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the Postscript, the narrator mentions someone being "propitiated" (42). What does this mean?

2. Who is Peter Stuyvesant?

3. When Rip breaks down over seeing his son, what does the crowd begin to think?

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

5. Where does Rip find himself on the morning after meeting the strangers on the mountain?

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