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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 is true of Rip's children in the beginning of the story?
(a) They refuse to speak to him.
(b) They are dangerously unsupervised.
(c) They are somewhat neglected.
(d) They are much more like their mother than like Rip.

2. What is Rip's dog's name?
(a) Wolf.
(b) Dutch.
(c) Dog.
(d) Bear.

3. What is Rip's son's name?
(a) Rip.
(b) Peter.
(c) John.
(d) Dutch.

4. On his way home from the mountains, what does Rip suddenly realize about his own appearance?
(a) His face is covered with wrinkles.
(b) His beard has grown a foot longer.
(c) He has a deep sunburn.
(d) His clothing is strangely worn and tattered.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. From the reference to the painting in the parsonage, what can the reader deduce about the men that Rip meets in the mountains?

2. 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?

3. Why does Rip hurry over to the man he sees on the mountainside?

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

5. How does Wolf react to the stranger on the mountainside?

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