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

2. Who is Derrick Van Brummel?
(a) The owner of the village inn.
(b) The owner of a local hotel.
(c) The mayor.
(d) The schoolmaster.

3. Who is Peter Stuyvesant?
(a) A former governor of New York.
(b) The village schoolmaster.
(c) The owner of the village inn.
(d) Rip's neighbor.

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

5. When Rip is tired from hunting, he lies down on a knoll. What is he lying on?
(a) A small hill.
(b) A flat spot.
(c) A rounded depression.
(d) A fallen tree.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Rip and the stranger climb up on their way up the mountainside?

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

3. What is Rip's first worry when he wakes up on the mountainside in the morning?

4. Who is "Dame" Van Winkle?

5. On his way home from the mountains, what does Rip suddenly realize about his own appearance?

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