Rip Van Winkle Quiz | Four Week Quiz B

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Rip Van Winkle Quiz | Four Week Quiz B

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

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

3. What is Rip's son's name?
(a) Peter.
(b) Dutch.
(c) John.
(d) Rip.

4. Where does Rip find himself on the morning after meeting the strangers on the mountain?
(a) In the natural "amphitheater."
(b) Lost in the woods on the mountainside.
(c) Back at the spot where he met the first man coming up the mountain.
(d) Next to the Hudson River.

5. What type of clothing is the stranger on the mountainside wearing?
(a) He is dressed like an innkeeper.
(b) He is dressed like a Dutchman from long ago.
(c) He is dressed like a pirate captain.
(d) He is dressed like a British soldier.

Short Answer 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?

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

3. Who is the author of "Rip Van Winkle"?

4. Who is Peter Stuyvesant?

5. When Rip nears the amphitheater where the group of men were on the night before, what does he notice?

(see the answer key)

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