Rip Van Winkle Quiz | One Week Quiz A

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Rip Van Winkle Quiz | One Week Quiz A

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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. 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) Angry.
(b) Surprised.
(c) Confused.
(d) Sad.

2. 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 under a spell.
(b) He thinks that sleeping on the mountainside may have given him an attack of rheumatism.
(c) He thinks that he must have walked much farther on the evening before than he first realized.
(d) He thinks that he is getting old.

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

4. What kind of relationship does Rip have with the village children?
(a) He is a favorite of theirs because he plays with them and tells stories.
(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) The children are frightened of Rip because he is always yelling at his son and daughter.

5. Who else has allegedly seen the ghostly crew of bowlers in the Catskills?
(a) Geoffrey Crayon.
(b) Diedrich Knickerbocker.
(c) Rip Van Winkle's son.
(d) Vanderdonk's father.

Short Answer Questions

1. When on page 31, the narrator says of Rip that he will "eat white bread or brown," how is Rip being characterized?

2. Who is the owner of the Union Hotel?

3. When Rip is finally identified and tells his story, what is the reaction of the villagers?

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

5. Rip thinks that the people of the village have become "disputatious" (37). What does this mean they are likely to do?

(see the answer key)

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