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

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

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

4. When Rip and the stranger enter the natural amphitheater, Rip sees several people doing what?
(a) Painting.
(b) Drinking.
(c) Gambling.
(d) Bowling.

5. What makes Rip feel like he has more liberty than he had as a younger man?
(a) His freedom from Dame Van Winkle.
(b) The new respect he gains among the villagers.
(c) The American Revolution.
(d) The things that he learned while in the mountains.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Rip keep hearing as he and the stranger climb up the mountainside?

4. On page 29, the narrator says that a person might have "descried" the smoke from the village. What does this mean a person might have done?

5. After he can no longer spend time with his friends, where does Rip start going to spend time away from his home and farm?

(see the answer key)

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