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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 2: Pages 33-36.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is Diedrich Knickerbocker's profession?
(a) Farmer.
(b) Writer of novels.
(c) Governor.
(d) Historian.

4. Under what pseudonym was "Rip Van Winkle" published?
(a) Geoffrey Crayon.
(b) Diedrich Knickerbocker.
(c) James Fenimore Cooper.
(d) Washington Irving.

5. Who is "Dame" Van Winkle?
(a) Rip's daughter.
(b) Rip's sister.
(c) Rip's mother.
(d) Rip's wife.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do Rip and the stranger climb up on their way up the mountainside?

3. Why does Rip stop spending time with his friends?

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

5. How does Rip end up drinking some of the men's strange liquor?

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