Rip Van Winkle Quiz | Eight Week Quiz D

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Rip Van Winkle Quiz | Eight Week Quiz D

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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. 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?
(a) Understatement.
(b) Simile.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Alliteration.

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

3. What does Rip keep hearing as he and the stranger climb up the mountainside?
(a) Something that sounds like stampeding animals.
(b) A deep, booming laugh.
(c) The roar of a waterfall.
(d) Something that sounds like thunder.

4. When Rip wakes in the morning on the mountainside, what does he think has happened to his gun?
(a) He thinks that the strange men have stolen it.
(b) He thinks that the strange men are playing some kind of joke.
(c) He thinks that he must have left it in the amphitheater.
(d) He thinks that he might have dropped it in the woods.

5. Where does Rip spend time with his friends?
(a) On a bench outside the village inn.
(b) Inside the bar of a local hotel.
(c) Hunting in the woods.
(d) Fishing in the Hudson River.

Short Answer Questions

1. What strikes Rip as very odd about the way the men on the mountainside are behaving?

2. 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?

3. The men on the mountainside have "uncouth, lack lustre countenances" (34). What does this mean is true about the men?

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

5. When Rip and the stranger enter the natural amphitheater, Rip sees several people doing what?

(see the answer key)

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