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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. What are the "flagons" that the men on the mountainside have (34)?
(a) Weapons.
(b) Cups.
(c) Dice.
(d) Old-fashioned hats.

2. When Rip finds the path that he and the strange man took on the night before, what surprising change has happened?
(a) It is now a dense forest.
(b) It is covered with splinters of wood from a keg.
(c) It is marked with several colors of dark paint.
(d) It is now a mountain stream.

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?
(a) Complained about it.
(b) Been puzzled by it.
(c) Explained its details.
(d) Seen it.

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

5. What do Rip and the stranger climb up on their way up the mountainside?
(a) A pathway left by loggers.
(b) A long, muddy slope.
(c) The dry bed of a stream.
(d) A rocky cliff.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Rip spend time with his friends?

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

3. What is Diedrich Knickerbocker's profession?

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

5. On page 29, the setting sun causes something to light up and glow "like a crown of glory." This is an example of what literary technique?

(see the answer key)

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