Rip Van Winkle Quiz | Eight Week Quiz A

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Rip Van Winkle Quiz | Eight Week Quiz A

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 1: Pages 28-32.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) There is a children's rope-skipping rhyme about him.
(c) His picture is stamped onto new year's cakes.
(d) There is a street in New York named after him.

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

3. On page 29, the mountains are said to be "lording it over the surrounding country." This is an example of which literary technique?
(a) Personification.
(b) Hyperbole.
(c) Onomatopoeia.
(d) Synechdoche.

4. Which nation controls New York at the time when Rip and the village are introduced to the reader?
(a) The United States.
(b) Sweden.
(c) Great Britain.
(d) Holland.

5. On page 30, the reader is told that Rip has an "insuperable aversion to all kinds of profitable labour." What does this mean is true about him?
(a) He is simply lazy.
(b) He is eager to work at anything that will help himself, but he does not like to help others.
(c) He is physically unable to do heavy labor.
(d) He hates working hard for his own material comfort and financial security.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Rip's son's name?

2. Where is the village that Rip lives in?

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

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. Who is Peter Stuyvesant?

(see the answer key)

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