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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. Why does Rip stop spending time with his friends?
(a) His wife tells him he cannot spend time with them anymore.
(b) His friends move away to a bigger town.
(c) His wife yells at them constantly.
(d) His friends decide that he is too lazy to be friends with.

2. Who is the frame narrator of "Rip Van Winkle"?
(a) James Fenimore Cooper.
(b) Washington Irving.
(c) Geoffrey Crayon.
(d) Diedrich Knickerbocker.

3. When on page 31, the narrator refers to Rip's wife's nagging as a "torrent of household eloquence," what tone is created?
(a) Maudlin.
(b) Farcical.
(c) Nostalgic.
(d) Ironic.

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

5. Who is the author of "Rip Van Winkle"?
(a) Diedrich Knickerbocker.
(b) Geoffrey Crayon.
(c) James Fenimore Cooper.
(d) Washington Irving.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is true of Rip's children in the beginning of the story?

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

3. 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?

4. What is Diedrich Knickerbocker's profession?

5. In the frame narrative, the reader is told that the main story's narrator gets his information from the wives of the "burghers" (28). Whose wives are these?

(see the answer key)

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